The Kremlin declines to comment on a sentence handed down to Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya Savchenko until the sentence is fully read out, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.

"As you know, the sentence will be read out today and tomorrow, so I cannot make any comments as of yet," he told the press.

The Donetsk City Court in Rostov region has passed a guilty verdict on Savchenko accused of murder of Russian journalists in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).