Kiev asked in a persistent form from Russia to release Savchenko

Ukraine expresses protest to Russia in connection with the handling of the criminal case Hope Savchenko and demands to release her without delay, reported Wednesday on the Internet representation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine referring to the foreign Ministry of the country.

Savchenko is accused in Russia of aiding and abetting the deprivation of life correspondents VGTRK. On Tuesday the Court of Donetsk of the Rostov region examined the case in the meeting she admitted that she gave orders to the artillery where to shoot, but did not want to acknowledge that an adjustment of fire. The defense said the number of petitions that were rejected by the court, and interrogated two of the victims - the residents of Donbass, whose houses were destroyed in the process of firing. The court will continue the proceedings on Wednesday.

"We demand from the Russian Federation to immediately stop the specified judicial farce and to release Hope Savchenko ", - reported in the report. It is also noted that the Ukrainian foreign Ministry "strong protest" in connection with the " consideration of the merits on the criminal case Hope Savchenko ".

review of the investigation, Savchenko, being the officer military power of Ukraine, on June 17, 2014 near the village Metalist Luhansk region led covert surveillance and the change in artillery fire on a section of a post of militia self-proclaimed LNR, where, and among them were the Russian correspondents VGTRK. In the result of attack two Russian citizens were killed.

in addition, according to the investigation, not later than 23 June 2014, Savchenko illegally crossed the border of Ukraine and Russia in the area of the checkpoint " Donetsk-Northern ", after which it was mated.

Itself Savchenko informs that she was kidnapped in Ukraine and forcibly transported to the Russian Federation. In her defense many times expressed by the majority of Ukrainian politicians, as well as among them the head Petro Poroshenko.


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