Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Halya Coynash: Crimean show trial of Kyiv Maidan activist begins
A man places a picture depicting Russia's President Vladimir Putin in a navy uniform at an open-air political cartoons exhibition dedicated to the one-year anniversary of Crimea voting to leave Ukraine and join the Russian state in central Moscow on March 16.
The trial is beginning in Russian-occupied Crimea of a Ukrainian citizen accused of slightly injuring another Ukrainian citizen during the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine's capital city before Russia annexed Crimea. The 'investigators' even used Olexandr Kostenko's Ukrainian citizenship as the pretext for holding him in custody.
