Official authorized SC of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin said that the case against Ukrainian Residents of Nadiya Savchenko and Oleg Sentsov't have a political motive, writes on the first day of the week the newspaper " Izvestia ".

"The investigation has no motives, and political, and only the facts on hand, and their obligation to investigate. The underlying causes are only for the gangsters, among them political, as in this case ", - said in an interview to the newspaper Markin.

in addition, he noticed that the opponents, who blame the UK of bias, " the presentation of facts and evidence do not even read ", for this reason, their charges are hardly a criticism. In this case, according to Markin, the story is about mass propaganda, directed by the U.S. state Department.

"The recent protest of the state Department against the conviction of Estonian organizer of espionage (Kohora - ed.), caught red-handed in the border area, only confirmed it," he says.

according to the SC of Russia, during the military actions in the area of Lugansk in June 2014, Savchenko, knowing the coordinates of the location of the group of Russian correspondents VGTRK and other civilians, handed them over to the Ukrainian troops. In the end, artillery strikes two correspondents lost his life.

Savchenko also charged with illegally crossing the border of Russia and Ukraine. She faces up to 25 years of imprisonment.

Ukrainian Director Sentsov, By assumption of the investigation, created in Crimea terrorist Commonwealth, which structural unit is prohibited in the Russian movement " Right sector ", for the release of the Peninsula from Russia. According to the SC, the defendants from April to may 2014 was set on fire in Simferopol offices of the public organization "Russian community of Crimea" and the local branch of the party " United Russia ". The defendants are also accused of seeking the organization's may 9 2014 the explosion of the monument to Lenin in Simferopol.

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