KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine will never recognise the sentencing of Nadezhda Savchenko by a Russian "kangaroo court", President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday after the Ukrainian pilot was handed a 22-year jail sentence.
"Ukraine will never - I repeat, never - recognise either the kangaroo court of Nadezhda Savchenko, nor the so-called sentencing," he said in a statement in which he called on Russia's Vladimir Putin to honour a promise to return Savchenko to Ukraine.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets; Writing by Alessandra Prentice, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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