Savchenko's lawyers see no proof of her guilt in sentence

17:21, 22.03.2016 1 min read

The defense team for Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko believes her guilt has not been substantiated by any evidence.

"She did not commit anything she has been punished for. She didn't kill the journalists Kornelyuk and Voloshin, and she didn't attempt on the life of cameraman Denisov," Savchenko's defense lawyer Mark Feygin told journalists on Tuesday.

"The court's sentence doesn't contain any proof," he said.

Another lawyer from Savchenko's defense team, Nikolai Polozov, said his client was determined to continue her political activities. "I am sure today's sentence is not the finish but only the beginning of her great political career," Polozov said.

Savchenko will be held at a detention facility in the Rostov region within the next weeks, and she plans to go on hunger and thirst strike ten days from now, Polozov said. "Her dry hunger strike will begin on the tenth working day. We tried to persuade her to change her mind today, but she is firm in her intentions," he said.