Krymskaya Savchenko is proud of the verdict of the Kyiv court
Russian State Duma deputy Svetlana Savchenko called the Svyatoshinsky Court of Kyiv's decision to sentence her in absentia to 14 years in prison "a tragic farce. "
The politician stated this to Kommersant, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
She was accused of the fact that when she was a deputy of the Supreme Council of Crimea, she voted for the resolution on the independence of the peninsula.
Savchenko herself told the publication that she regards the verdict of the Svyatoshinsky court in Kyiv as “a tragic farce.” It was precisely such “political games,” according to her, that led to a “coup d’etat and civil war” in Ukraine.
“I am proud that I took part in making those absolutely correct decisions that led to the return of Crimea and the Crimeans to their historical homeland - Russia,” the deputy said.
She added that the verdict of the Kyiv court “will not affect her life in any way.”
In turn, the head of the working group on international legal issues at the permanent mission of Crimea to the President of the Russian Federation, Alexander Molokhov, said that Savchenko became the first deputy who was convicted in absentia in Ukraine. According to him, similar cases are being investigated against the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov and hundreds of Crimean deputies and officials.
“Not even those involved know about all these cases,” Molokhov noted.
Deputy Chairman of the Public Chamber of Crimea Alexander Formanchuk told the newspaper that all current and former Crimean ministers, heads of city and district administrations, and deputies of all levels are subject to criminal prosecution in Ukraine.
“That is, for example, for those 250 Crimean Tatars who were elected to various local councils, no exception was made in Ukraine either,” Formanchuk noted.
Earlier it was reported that Ukraine had initiated criminal cases against six thousand residents of Crimea who worked in Crimea as officials at various levels before 2014.
As PolitNavigator reported, the Russian Investigative Committee has referred to court the case of the former Ukrainian Defense Minister, who called for terrorist attacks on Russian territory.
Also in Moscow, the former Ukrainian Minister of Transport, who took part in the pogrom of the Russian embassy in Kiev, received a prison sentence.
Krymskaya Savchenko is proud of the Kyiv court's verdict.