On Jan. 24, the one-and-a-half year long treason trial of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych finally ended.
The fugitive ex-head of state was charged with high treason, encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, and complicity in Russia’s aggressive warfare. Since Yanukovych has been hiding in Russia since early spring of 2014, he was tried in absentia.
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Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych passes the display with the word reading "Putin" as he arrives to give a press conference in Moscow on Feb. 6, 2019.
