Ukrainian presidential press officer Svyatoslav Tseholko said Ukrainian parliamentarians, Ukrainian diplomats and himself were barred from the courtroom in Donetsk, in the Rostov region of Russia, where the sentence of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko is being read on March 21.He said the Ukrainian delegation is near the courtroom and the reasons why they are not allowed to enter the courtroom after the recess have not been explained to them.
Maria Ionova, a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction of the Ukrainian parliament, also said that "all representatives of the Ukrainian delegation, including the general consul of Ukraine, were not allowed to enter the courtroom to attend the second part of the court hearing."
