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Ex-President Yanukovych found guilty of treason:
By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
A Kyiv court has found former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason and of complicity in attempting to change Ukraine's border and waging war.
Kyiv Obolon district court Judge Vladyslav Devyatko, who is delivering the verdict on January 24, said that Yanukovych was guilty of calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to deploy troops to Ukraine.
The reading of the verdict is still under way.
Yanukovych is charged with three counts -- high treason, complicity in waging war, and complicity in infringing on Ukraine's territorial integrity, which resulted in the deaths of people and other serious consequences.
The prosecution asked to sentence Yanukovych to 15 years in prison. The verdict is being delivered in absentia, as Yanukovych in currently believed to be in Russia. He has said the case is politically motivated.
After Moscow-friendly Yanukovych was pushed from power in Kyiv by the pro-European Maidan protest movement in February 2014, Russia moved swiftly to seize control over Ukraine's Crimea region.
Putin's government sent troops without insignia to the peninsula, seized key buildings, took control of the regional legislature, and staged a referendum denounced as illegitimate by at least 100 countries at the United Nations.
Russia also fomented unrest and backed opponents of Kyiv in eastern Ukraine, where more than 10,300 people have been killed in the ensuing conflict since April 2014.
The International Criminal Court ruled in November 2016 that the fighting in eastern Ukraine was "an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation." (w/Meduza and Kyiv Post)
CORRECTION: It now appears that Viktor Yanukovych has not yet been found guilty of the charges against him.