The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine: EU to send observers to the trials of Savchenko and Sentsov
The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine says that the EU will send its commissioners in Russia to monitor the trials for the advancement of people of Ukraine Hope Savchenko, accused in death of 2 Russian correspondents, Oleg Sentsov, which is involved in case Of terrorist attacks in the Crimea.
in the explanations of the official envoy of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine the Mariana Betsy published Tuesday on the Internet office of the Ministry, it is reported that on July 16, Ukrainian foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin sent to EU foreign Ministers, the group of seven and international organizations with letters of petition to send their commissioners to the places of holding courts over Savchenko, Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko " to ensure proper monitoring of judicial processes."
The Supreme Commissioner of EU on foreign and security policy Frederica Mogherini on July 21 sent a letter Klimkin in response to his appeal, informs the Ukrainian foreign Ministry." Mogherini said About the direction of EU commissioners to monitor litigation " over N. Savchenko and Oleg Sentsov ", - reported in the explanations.
according to information from the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Supreme Commissioner of the EU said that the presence of the commissioners of the international brotherhood at these meetings will be to ensure the transparency of the progress of the litigation " and " to serve as a reminder that the EU expects from the Russian Federation the confirmation of the commitments to respect international law."
Donetsk city court of the Rostov region on July 30 starts to consider the case under the criminal code of the citizen of Ukraine Hopes Savchenko, accused in death of 2 Russian correspondents. Review of the RF IC, Savchenko, being an officer of the military might of Ukraine, June 17, 2014 near the village Metalist Luhansk region led covert surveillance and correction of artillery fire on the area of the roadblock militias LNR, where, and among them were the Russian correspondents VGTRK. In the end, the death of 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-North ", after which it was mated.
Itself Savchenko all charges fundamentally rejects and claims that she was abducted in Ukraine and forcibly deported to the Russian Federation. In her defense, many times expressed by the majority of Ukrainian politicians, and among them the head Petro Poroshenko.
Director Sentsov, according to the SC of the Russian Federation, created in Crimea terrorist Commonwealth, which structural unit is prohibited in the Russian Federation " the Right sector ", for the release of the Peninsula from Russia. He Sentsov deny that he was a member of " Right sector ", and said that the investigation has no evidence of his involvement in this case. As reported by the Prosecutor General's office, the criminal activities of the terrorist brotherhood was suppressed by the FSB in may 2014. Two of the defendant in this case is Alex and He is Gennady Afanasiev already received 7 years of imprisonment. Now on the bench of the accused Sentsov and Kolchenko.