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| Ukraine court sentences Russia soldiers to 14-years in prison |
| 2016-04-19 |
| [Iran Press TV] A court in Ukraine has sentenced two Russian soldiers, captured in 2015, to 14 years in prison for crimes, including fighting in the conflict in the country’s troubled east. The Ukrainian court made the ruling on Monday, after it found Sergeant Aleksander Aleksandrov and Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev guilty of participating in "an aggressive war" against Ukraine and committing "a terrorist attack" in the country’s east. Kiev says the two were servicemen with an elite Russian military intelligence unit when they were tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the eastern region of Lugansk last May. Russia, however, insists that the pair had resigned from active duty and crossed into the war zone of their own free will. Russia’s Interfax news agency, citing the convicts’ lawyers, said Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev have yet to decide whether to file an appeal against the verdict. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has proposed swapping the soldiers for a Ukrainian pilot who was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a Russian court in March. |
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