The case against Verkhovna Rada (unaligned) deputy Nadiya Savchenko and ex-head of Officer Corps Volodymyr Ruban who are suspected of actions aimed at violently changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power will be heard at the Chernihiv District Court of the Chernihiv region.
A respective decision was made by a panel of judges of Ukraine’s Supreme Court on Feb. 11.
The prosecutor’s office earlier sent a motion to transfer this case from the Sloviansk City District Court in the Donetsk region, to which it was originally sent, to the Chernihiv District Court of the Chernihiv region. On Jan. 30, it became known that the first meeting for preparing hearings on the Savchenko-Ruban trial was scheduled for Feb. 6 in Slaviansk City District Court, Donetsk region; however, later it was postponed until Feb. 13.
In their turn, Savchenko and Ruban’s defense sent a motion for the case to be heard at the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv.
Savchenko has been in custody since March 23.
Ruban was detained on March 8 at a checkpoint in Donbas with an arsenal of weapons that he was allegedly trying to smuggle into the territory under Kyiv’s control.
Ruban was arrested by the Shevchenkivsky District Court in Kyiv on March 9.
