Pair sentenced to 14 years in jail but are likely to be swapped for Ukrainian pilot Nadiya SavchenkoTwo Russian soldiers captured in east Ukraine occupy been convicted of terrorism by a court in Kiev and sentenced to 14 years in jail. The defence lawyer for one of the men was murdered during the trial.
The verdict,reached by a panel of three judges, said Sgt Aleksander Aleksandrov and Capt Yevgeny Yerofeyev were guilty of participating in “an aggressive war” against Ukraine and committing a terrorist attack”. It also found that they were serving soldiers in the Russian army’s GRU intelligence wing.
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Source: theguardian.com