Posted on 03/21/2016 6:52:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Monday's court session ended without a verdict from the jury, but the court judge stated that Nadia Savchenko was complicit in the deaths of Igor Vladimirovich Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin. Kornelyuk, 37, was a correspondent for the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and Voloshin, 26, was a sound technician when they were killed by Ukrainian mortar fire on June 17, 2014.
Five refugees were also killed in the strike on a LPR rebel checkpoint near Luhansk, officials said. The attack was ordered by the Ukrainian military, which said it was targeting pro-Russian separatists.
Monday, the court said Savchenko was complicit in the deaths because she helped direct artillery fire toward the location where the journalists were meeting with locals. She was captured by separatists the following day and has been detained since -- mostly isolated in a glass cage.
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A veteran volunteer aviator in Ukraine's army, Savchenko has repeatedly denied any involvement whatsoever in the reporters' deaths and has claimed she was abducted by pro-Russian forces and subsequently handed over to Moscow forces....
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Interesting.
Last I heard, Russian military doctrine was to shoot everyone with a camera.
Now they prosecute for it?
UPI is still around? I thought they faded away after the Moonies bought them.
Ukrainians are seriously angry over this. The woman is a national hero.
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