Tuesday’s hearing coincided with the resumption of Nadia Savchenko’s trial in southern Russia, where she is accused of planning the deaths of two Russian journalists in a mortar attack.
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“The question asked earlier about … how they present things and the lies about their presence in Ukraine and the training, I mean, you know, it’s stunning but it has an impact in places where it isn’t countered”, he said.
“Abuse of the veto right, its usage as a license to kill, is absolutely unacceptable”, Poroshenko said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko paints the devastating conflict – which has killed more than 8,000 people – as Russia’s retribution for the February 2014 ouster of Kiev’s Moscow-backed leadership.
During his speech Putin made several allegations about the nature of Ukraine’s pro-European revolution which toppled pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych and installed the current government, referring to it as a coup “orchestrated from outside”.
The move is in retaliation for Russia’s alleged support for rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine where a civil war has been raging since April 2014. “These days the Russian “men in green” tread on Syrian land”, Poroshenko said.
He also called for Russian Federation to release of Nadya Savchenko, a former Ukrainian soldier, and Oleg Sentsov, a Crimea filmmaker. “We have to fight them not only in the media, but also on the ground”.
“I am a prisoner of war and a hostage who has been abducted”, she said, rejecting Russia’s claim that she crossed the border herself, posing as a refugee.
It said that there were over 2,300 freight cars belonging to Russian Railways now in Ukraine and all of them would be sent back to Russia.
“Chemical sites in the conflict area in the eastern part of Ukraine and in the adjacent territories represent a particular danger”.
Ukraine consents to really apply 2B cubic m of Russian nitrous oxide into ground breaking space internet sites on its archipelago helping supplies necessities…
“People can not say exactly the same things to the last comma, they aren’t robots”, said defence lawyer Nikolai Polozov, comparing the case to Stalin-era show trials.
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Savchenko may face a jail sentence of up to 25 years should the Russian court finds her guilty.
