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Ex-President Yanukovych of treason and sentenced to

A Kiev court has spoken to the Ukrainian Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych is guilty of treason. It was proven that he made to the Russia aid for the management of

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Ex-President Yanukovych of treason and sentenced to

A Kiev court has spoken to the Ukrainian Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych is guilty of treason. It was proven that he made to the Russia aid for the management of a war of aggression, ruled the judge on Thursday the Ukrainian media, according to.

Yanukovych is said to have favored, among other things, to his deposition and the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia. The sentence was not immediately known.

Poroshenko witnesses

Yanukovych had won the February 2010 presidential election against the pro-Western government of Yulia Tymoshenko. He was overthrown in the case of Pro-Western protests in February 2014 and fled to Russia.

The process was conducted in the absence of the defendant since may of 2017. Yanukovych took part via video conference from his Russian exile. The defense looks at the proceedings as politically motivated. More than 50 high-level witnesses, including the current head of state, Petro Poroshenko, Ex-Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, were interviewed.

The judgment is not yet final. It is the first proceedings against a former head of state in Ukraine. (Dec/sda)

Created: 24.01.2019, 13:18 PM

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