Savchenko's Lawyers Start Final Arguments At Trial In Russian Court, Defense attorneys for Nadia Savchenko accept amorphous their final arguments in the Russian cloister area the Ukrainian aggressive pilot is answerable with abetment in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine.
Savchenko was accepted to accomplish her final animadversion on March 3 to the aggressive cloister in Russia's southwestern Rostov Oblast, and a adjudication was accepted anon afterwards the closing arguments.
Prosecutors affirmation that Savchenko acted as a anchor for a Ukrainian advance assemblage angry agitator armament in eastern Ukraine. They affirmation she directed blaze that dead the two journalists on June 17, 2014. She is aswell accused of illegally bridge the bound into Russia, area prosecutors affirmation she was captured. Prosecutors are calling for Savchenko to be fined 100,000 rubles ($1,350) and bedevilled to 23 years in prison.
Savchenko's aegis aggregation disputes the charges, arguing that she had been captured by separatists afore the baleful adhesive strike, and was banned beyond the bound to Russia.
Defense advocate Ilya Novikov told the cloister on March 3 that "Savchenko's answerability has not been proven." "We accept an alibi," he said, citation annal of the pilot's mobile-phone calls that showed she was in agitator aegis if All-Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were killed.
Savchenko, who was adopted to the Ukrainian assembly in October 2014 and serves in absentia as a Ukrainian adumbrative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), appeared in cloister cutting acceptable Ukrainian dress and listened as her aegis aggregation argued her case.
The judge, however, accepted that Savchenko not arrest affairs and threatened she would be ordered to leave the attorneys if interruptions continued.
Kyiv argues that the accuse adjoin Savchenko are trumped up and that she should be advised as a captive of war. The pilot herself, who has conducted assorted ache strikes during the advance of her imprisonment and is currently abnegation food, has threatened to go on a dry ache bang -- acceptation she would debris baptize as able-bodied -- unless she is alternate to Ukraine aural 10 canicule of the verdict.
Novikov said the aegis aggregation would not address the verdict, "but not because Savchenko is guilty." Novikov said that a adjudication of not accusable "would accomplish history," but told the adjudicator he didn't apprehend him to aphorism in Savchenko's favor.
Savchenko's attorneys are alert of a bottom book than the 23 years sought, because they accept a lighter book could be appealed by prosecutors.
Savchenko was accepted to accomplish her final animadversion on March 3 to the aggressive cloister in Russia's southwestern Rostov Oblast, and a adjudication was accepted anon afterwards the closing arguments.
Prosecutors affirmation that Savchenko acted as a anchor for a Ukrainian advance assemblage angry agitator armament in eastern Ukraine. They affirmation she directed blaze that dead the two journalists on June 17, 2014. She is aswell accused of illegally bridge the bound into Russia, area prosecutors affirmation she was captured. Prosecutors are calling for Savchenko to be fined 100,000 rubles ($1,350) and bedevilled to 23 years in prison.
Savchenko's aegis aggregation disputes the charges, arguing that she had been captured by separatists afore the baleful adhesive strike, and was banned beyond the bound to Russia.
Defense advocate Ilya Novikov told the cloister on March 3 that "Savchenko's answerability has not been proven." "We accept an alibi," he said, citation annal of the pilot's mobile-phone calls that showed she was in agitator aegis if All-Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were killed.
Savchenko, who was adopted to the Ukrainian assembly in October 2014 and serves in absentia as a Ukrainian adumbrative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), appeared in cloister cutting acceptable Ukrainian dress and listened as her aegis aggregation argued her case.
The judge, however, accepted that Savchenko not arrest affairs and threatened she would be ordered to leave the attorneys if interruptions continued.
Kyiv argues that the accuse adjoin Savchenko are trumped up and that she should be advised as a captive of war. The pilot herself, who has conducted assorted ache strikes during the advance of her imprisonment and is currently abnegation food, has threatened to go on a dry ache bang -- acceptation she would debris baptize as able-bodied -- unless she is alternate to Ukraine aural 10 canicule of the verdict.
Novikov said the aegis aggregation would not address the verdict, "but not because Savchenko is guilty." Novikov said that a adjudication of not accusable "would accomplish history," but told the adjudicator he didn't apprehend him to aphorism in Savchenko's favor.
Savchenko's attorneys are alert of a bottom book than the 23 years sought, because they accept a lighter book could be appealed by prosecutors.
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