Russian Court Jails Ukraine's Savchenko for 22 Years Over Deaths
Source: Bloomberg
A court in Russia imprisoned Ukrainian officer Nadiya Savchenko for 22 years after convicting her of complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine in a trial thats been condemned by the U.S. and the European Union.
Savchenko, 34, whos on hunger strike in protest at the trial, was also convicted of illegally crossing Russias border and will be fined, the court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk ruled on Tuesday. Prosecutors had demanded that Savchenko be jailed for 23 years.
The trial is a maneuver for the Kremlin, which needs to justify aggression in eastern Ukraine and everyone knows Savchenko is innocent, her lawyer Mark Feygin said by phone Monday before sentencing proceedings began.
Savchenko, who denied the charges, has become a symbol for many Ukrainians of resistance to pro-Russian separatism in the conflict in the countrys east. She says she was kidnapped by Russian-backed rebels in the conflict zone in June 2014 and taken across the border to Russia. Ukraine says shes being held illegally, and the U.S. and the EU have both called on Russia to release her. Savchenko was elected to Ukraines parliament in 2014 while in Russian detention.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-22/russian-court-jails-ukraine-s-savchenko-for-22-years-over-deaths
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)highoverheadspace
(307 posts)bombing videos on You Tube they will surely be happy to see this woman sent off to jail. I won't post the video here because they are too horrific to put up. But if folks want to see for themselves one of the victims right after it happened, her names was Inna Kukurudza.
Type the following words into the You Tube search bar ( Lughansk bombing Inna Kukurudza) and be prepared to cry your eyes out. Her arms and legs are blown off, but she still politely asks the person helping her if she can use his cell phone to call her daughter to see if she is ok. You will not see that on US television. The woman on trial in that Russian court was the co-pilot on the Ukrainian airforce jet that dropped the bombs on those civilians.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)I did a search and it looks like she was fighting with ground forces as part of a volunteer militia.
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)From Wikipedia: Life and military career[edit]
Nadiya Savchenko and her younger sister Vira were born in Kyiv. Their father was an agricultural engineer, their mother a designer and cargo manager.[14] Her sister Vira said in an interview that she and her sister were brought up in a Ukrainian-speaking household and attending Ukrainian-language schools.[14]
At 16, Savchenko was already determined to become a pilot. She joined the Ukrainian Army, working as a radio operator with the country's railway forces before training as a paratrooper.[14] She was then the only Ukrainian female soldier in the (20042008) Ukrainian peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Upon returning, she successfully petitioned the Defense Ministry for the right to attend the prestigious Air Force University in Kharkiv, which until then had been open only to men; she graduated in 2009.[15]
In 2010, she was posted to the 3rd Army Aviation Regiment in Brody, Lviv Oblast. In 2011, the Ukraine Defense Forces published a 20-minute documentary about Savchenko and her military career.[16] She also featured in a United Nations Development Program as part of a drive to promote equality in the Ukrainian military.[17] In 2014, she volunteered as an instructor in the Aidar Battalion.[18]
I would also recommend you look up who the Aidar battalion are. They are Neo-Nazis that have killed thousands of ethnic Russian civilians in East Ukraine. Google is your friend in this regard. Plenty of video of them out there on You Tube committing atrocities against civilians.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)The claim was that she was the co-pilot that blew off that poor woman's limbs, and as far as I can tell she was part of ground operations at the time with that militia rather than co-piloting a bomber in the airforce. That's what I'm confused about.
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)Russian sites are banned here so I won't bother posting, but you can easily research it yourself through a number of Russian news portals. They are trying her for the murder of two journalists as well as other war crimes committed against civilans. From what I read she went back and forth with Aidar battalion between being an FO (forward Observer calling in airstrikes) and a co-pilot conducting the strikes themselves. Aidar battalion is a nasty group of Neo-Nazis that conducted a large part of the killings of the ethnic Russian population that make up the entirety of the victims. You Tube has plenty of video of them if you care to verify that they are Neo-Nazis who conduct murder of civilians.
I wouldn't rely on Wikipedia for accuracy these days, by the way. Its well known that the MIC has contractors editing it.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)And there's a good reason for that.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)we're waiting
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)And when do *THOSE* fucking trials start?
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)Judging from what we have seen out of Kiev, Ukraine in the past two years, I think there is very good reason to believe that one of their Neo-Nazi battalions did it as a false flag provocation. Like many aspects of that war, the truth about Ukraine has been covered up by the media. That is happening due to the huge geo-political stakes at play.
Not sure if you heard, but the Dutch Safety Board reported that Kiev never gave them any primary radar data and informed them that all 3 of their radar facilities were switched off under maintenance on that day. All 3 of them. At the same time MH-17 was shot down. That is highly suspect as they had continuous civilian air traffic flying overhead and a war was going on. Therefore, they must be obviously lying about all 3 radar facilities being offline. Now you tell me, why would they lie about that? The Dutch press are in an uproar about it, but it barely gets covered in the US media.
Check out Consortium News to learn the truth about whats going on with the MH17 investigation. Seems like a lot of things are out of the ordinary and unraveling. I assume thats why the frame ups has taken two years to accomplish. The victims families deserve true justice and the perpetrators deserve to be in jail for the rest of their lives.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/03/16/the-ever-curiouser-mh-17-case/
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)highoverheadspace
(307 posts)or is distraction your only ploy.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)EX500rider
(10,842 posts)....lucky us...
EX500rider
(10,842 posts).....she is accused of being a artillery spotter for a mortar team, not flying anything.
She took leave of her Air Force job to join the irregular volunteers at the front.
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)You may want to look up and read the Russian criminal indictment that THEY tried her on. Our media is fogging over what she did. She is a useful propaganda tool to keep sanctions in place, nothing more. From what I've seen of her behavior, she's a wicked woman who finds nothing wrong with her actions that led to so much death and misery.
She'll get no sympathy from me. Here's a link to a Yahoo/AFP article about the Aidar battalion. http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-soldiers-government-were-coming-next-155843129.html
EX500rider
(10,842 posts)Yes, defending her country from a Russian invasion, how evil of her! lol
Prosecutors say the 34-year-old guided a Ukrainian mortar strike which hit a Russian state TV crew in June 2014. She denies being involved, and her defense team say that phone records from the day of the strike prove her innocence.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31760381
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)to have the government defund. https://www.google.com/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=petition+against+the+BBC&oq=petition+against+the+BBC&gs_l=hp.3..0i22i30l3j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l2.1273.9705.0.10730.27.18.1.6.6.0.785.3636.0j1j3j2j0j2j1.9.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..11.15.3378.0.DimbQS0IxwM
Lets just wait and see how the war plays out and where the cards fall. The Ukrainian Right Sector battalions are still busy bombing civilians in the East who voted to secede. Hopefully they will stop soon as the war is obviously going nowhere and Ukraine is in financial dire starits. The IMF has even stopped their funding due to it looking like a black hole of oligarchical thieves.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It's very New Thinking of you to allege that all sources which contradict your narrative are propaganda. Hence, you may understand the reticence to accept your allegations as de-factor reality.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)truly sick
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)because she called in an indirect artillery strike on a military checkpoint that ended up killing two embedded journalists?
Does that mean that any military unit that has journalists near it cannot be attacked during times of war?
highoverheadspace
(307 posts)Maybe we should ask Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Ukraine does border Russia by the way and all of the victims of the war are ethnic Russian civilians killed by Kiev's Right Sector battalions. Last I heard 1.5 million people fled to Russia for safety. That should tell you all you need to know. Refugees don't run towards danger, they run away from it.
Did you see this Harpers magazine article on her Aidar battalion commander Igor Kolomoisky who recently stole $1.8 billion in US taxpayer IMF funds and hid them in his private bank accounts in Cyprus? It didn't make a lot of news with the mainstream media but its well worth the read. This is why the IMF froze further funding. https://harpers.org/blog/2015/08/undelivered-goods/
Undelivered Goods
How $1.8 billion in aid to Ukraine was funneled to the outposts of the international finance galaxy