Ukrainian delegation, diplomats finally attend sentencing of Nadia Savchenko

18:24, 21.03.2016 1 min read

Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleksiy Ryabchyn (Batkivschyna Party) has said the Ukrainian delegation and diplomats were finally allowed into the courtroom in Donetsk in Russia's Rostov region, where a verdict is being handed down to Ukrainian pilot and parliamentarian Nadia Savchenko.

"We are in the courtroom again! The scandal worked, and this time around, after the break, both diplomats and the Ukrainian delegation were let in," the parliamentarian wrote on Twitter.

Most of those in attendance agree that "the sentencing will be dragged out into tomorrow," he said.

Savchenko's lawyer Nikolai Polozov also pointed out that the judge Leonid Stepanenko continued delivering the verdict but "somewhat faster than before the break."

Earlier, Ukrainian president's press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko said that he, Ukrainian parliamentarians, and Ukrainian diplomats, were barred from the courtroom where Savchenko is being sentenced.