Russian man Alexandrov could appeal against his verdict after text received
The lawyer for the Russian citizen Alexander Alexandrov could not say if the verdict against his client would be appealed.
"The verdict was announced by three professional judges, who evaluated the evidence and announced their position in the court ruling. It can be either appealed or accepted. We will discuss these possibilities with my client. The law gives us 30 days," Valentin Rybin told reporters after the Holosiyivsky district court in Kyiv announced the verdict on Monday.
Alexandrov was found guilty of waging an aggressive war, membership in a terrorist organization, and staging a deadly terrorist attack, he said.
"The rest of the charges – arms smuggling, firearm possession without permission, and violation of the rules for crossing into the temporarily occupied territories – were rejected by the court," the lawyer said.
Rubin declined to comment on the possibility of his client being swapped for the Ukrainian military servicewoman and parliamentarian Nadia Savchenko who was convicted by a Russian court.
"I am a lawyer, a defense attorney, I am defending a person, exchange is outside of my competence," Rybin said.
Earlier on Monday, a panel of judges at the Holosiyivsky district court in the city of Kyiv, sentenced Alexandrov and another fellow Russian, Yevgeny Yerofeyev, to 14 years of imprisonment.
