Image copyright Reuters Ukrainian officer Hope Savchenko demanded in a Russian court to make her verdict within two weeks, threatening otherwise to declare a hunger strike.
“If the court takes more than two weeks at the sentencing, I turn on a hunger strike from tomorrow, and sentence you’ll make posthumous without me”, – he announced Savchenko March 2 in the course of the debate in the municipal court of the Russian Donetsk on the border with Ukraine.
prosecutors on Wednesday demanded to sentence Savchenko to 23 years in prison.
in his speech, the senior lieutenant of the Ukrainian Air Force, captured in June 2014 in captivity separatists and exported to Russia , he said, objecting to prosecutors that during the five months of the trial court was not her guilt was proved, and the wine of the Russian authorities, the FSB and the Investigative Committee of the Russian officers to capture Ukrainian territory, waging war and killing of peaceful citizens of Ukraine.
“this court has not been proven only my fault [...] I – an officer of the Ukrainian armed forces. I had every right to defend their land, it is my duty. You have no right to judge me, “- said 34-year-old Ukrainian
The debate – the penultimate stage of the trial before the last word and the announcement of the verdict – began on Wednesday in Donetsk city court with a presentation of three prosecutors:. Paul Filipchuk Dmitry Yunosheva and Vladislav Kuznetsov.
Prosecutors said that, in their view, wine Savchenko in the murder came under shelling employees of the Russian TV Anton Voloshin and Igor Korneliuk completely proved.
Indications witness protection, according to prosecutors, should not be included, since they are witnesses, sought to shield Savchenko. the results are astronomical espertiza, refuting the major charges an item on time, taking Savchenko prisoner, prosecutors ignored.
the differences also in the testimony of the prosecution witnesses, contrary to the prosecution, the prosecutors explained the stressful situation in which there were witnesses.
witnesses confused
So, one of the locals credited the result to victims, as well as a taxi driver, Lugansk witness the death of Voloshin and Korneliuk initially said that along with two Russians killed at least 10 armed militias. Then, during the trial, the dead never mentioned.
This is an important point, since, according to the indictment, Savchenko intentionally put things artillery fire exclusively on civilians.
“As they say, fear big eyes “, – he told the court on Wednesday, prosecutor Dmitry boys. From his words it turned out that the witnesses of fear seemed that at that intersection at Lugansk killed not only two employees of RTR, and then, when they were investigators talked, they realized they were wrong.
About the same prosecutor The youth explained the initial discrepancies in the testimony of militias as to what time of captured Savchenko. According to him, the fighters of the separatist battalion “Dawn” in the day for the first time got into a fight.
“What were these people for the first time to fight against superior enemy forces, who used to the same heavy equipment and artillery? . this may explain some of the discrepancies in their testimony, “- he said the young man
at the same time, despite the recognition of those who fought separatists accusations logic against Savchenko prosecutors remained unchanged: Ukrainian artillery, which it adjusted the fire, specially shot exclusively by civilians, not armed enemy. The militia also, according to the speeches of the prosecutors in the place were engaged exclusively withdrawal of civilians from the shelling
“The prosecution finds full proof of guilt Savchenko Russian citizens killing Korneliuk and Voloshin”, -. Summed Attorney Paul Filipchuk and requested for Savchenko ’23 a penal colony, and 100 thousand rubles fine for illegal border crossing
“I have been asked what we think about the life that will tell:.. no matter – he told reporters after meeting one of the lawyers Savchenko Ilya Novikov -. Request to 25 – it would not be worse Request to 10 -. it would not be better We understand -. and judges understand and prosecutors understand and Hope Savchenko understands – that time when she has been released, does not depend on what is written in the verdict “.
A political solution
Savchenko and its lawyers are hoping that after the verdict the Russian authorities to take a political decision on its exchange, granting Ukraine or even some form of release.
at the same time Savchenko Wednesday in court again he stated that it was – against her in exchange for Russian officers Yerofeyev and Alexandrova, captured in the same place at Lugansk. Logically Savchenko, it will be unfair exchange, since she did not commit any crimes, and the Russians were captured with weapons in the hands of the Ukrainian territory.
Lieutenant Ukrainian Air Force, vertoletchitsa Hope Savchenko was captured by separatists in battle north of Lugansk 17 June 2014. Six days after that, she was in Russia, where the Investigative Committee accused her of involvement in the deaths of two members of the Russian state TV under fire in the same area of the same June 17.
Savchenko, her lawyers and witnesses involved them : experts during the trial proved that the charges against her rigged, and the case is political in nature, so the conviction is inevitable.
According to the prosecution the plot, Hope Savchenko arrived in Luhansk region for the purpose of killing civilians, has climbed on June 17, the tower, seen walking along the road near the village of Metalist group of civilians and brought upon them the artillery fire. By this fire died and the staff of the Russian TV Kornelyuk Igor Anton Voloshin, of involvement in the death and which accused Savchenko.
Savchenko and defense argued that Savchenko was captured in a battle with the separatists before killing Voloshin and Kornelyuk, artillery fire did not adjust, and the artillery fire conducted by the armed separatists, with about a dozen of them were killed.
according to the Russian prosecutor’s office, Savchenko after several days in captivity was just released on the orders of the then battalion commander separatists “Dawn”, now the head of the self-proclaimed LNR Igor carpentry then somehow some reason, crossed the border and appeared in the Voronezh region of Russia, where he was arrested. The very Savchenko previously recounted in court how her passing from hand to hand and from the machine into a car, taken to Russia.
On Thursday, March 3 court debate were made by lawyers, and then the last word says itself Ukrainian.
According to Novikov, the last word Savchenko will be some political declaration, and there would be some announcement, important for Ukraine.
After that, the panel of judges, headed by Leonid Stepanenko announce the date announcement sentence.
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