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Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko given 22-year sentence | |
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Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has been sentenced to 22 years in jail after being convicted of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists. | |
She was accused of directing the artillery fire in eastern Ukraine in which the two journalists died in June 2014. | She was accused of directing the artillery fire in eastern Ukraine in which the two journalists died in June 2014. |
Prosecutors said she was driven by "political hatred". | Prosecutors said she was driven by "political hatred". |
She denied all the charges and her case has become internationally notorious. | |
Western politicians have been among those calling for her release, echoing her lawyers' descriptions of the process as a show trial and a farce. | |
As Savchenko was finally pronounced guilty, following the judge's two-day reading of the verdict, she disrupted proceedings by singing a Ukrainian national song. | |