Ukraine Proposes Exchange as Russia Jails Savchenko for 22 Years
- Judge convicts Ukrainian officer of aiding journalists' murder
- Poroshenko urges Putin to swap her for two detained Russians
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Ukraine called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to send its officer Nadiya Savchenko home in a prisoner exchange after she was sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony in a trial condemned by the U.S. and the European Union.
Savchenko, 34, was convicted Tuesday by a court in Russia of complicity in the murder of two Russian journalists during the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014. She was also found guilty of illegally crossing Russia’s border and fined 30,000 rubles ($444) by the court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk. Prosecutors had sought a prison term of 23 years.