A court in Kyiv has found former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason, Tert.am reports.
Ukrainian court convicts former President Viktor Yanukovych for treason
STEPANAKERT, JANUARY 24, ARTSAKHPRESS:Prosecutors in Kyiv were seeking life imprisonment for Yanukovych on charges of high treason, taking deliberate actions that violated Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and complicity with Russian authorities.
Yanukovych abandoned the Ukrainian president's office in late February 2014 and fled to Russia in the face of protests triggered by his decision to scrap a landmark deal with the European Union and, instead, improve economic ties with Moscow.
Dozens of people were killed when Yanukovych's government attempted to clamp down on the pro-European Union protests known as the Euromaidan.
Yanukovych's ouster was soon followed by Russia's seizure and illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and by Moscow's support for pro-Russia separatists fighting against Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine.
