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		</div><p>A court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev has found former president Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason and helping Russia annex the Crimean peninsula.</p>
<p>The Kiev court began reading out the verdict in Yanukovych&#8217;s case, a process that is expected to take at least the whole day.</p>
<p>The judge has already declared Yanukovych guilty of treason and premeditated actions to alter the country&#8217;s borders, and will rule later on the other charges.</p>
<p>Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014 as tensions in Kiev flared up following a deadly police crackdown on protesters calling for the president to follow through with an association agreement with the European Union.</p>
<p>He eventually surfaced in Russia and was tried in absentia.</p>
<p>The Kremlin has used a request by Yanukovych as one of the legal grounds to seize the Crimean peninsula and later formally annex it.</p>
<p>At a United Nations Security Council session on March 1 2014, a Russian envoy had read out a request by Yanukovych to send Russian troops to Ukraine.</p>
<p>Yanukovych later said he did send a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking for military assistance, but claimed that that was not an official invitation for boots on the ground.</p>
<p>The annexation of Crimea triggered hostilities in eastern Ukraine, where fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops has claimed more than 10,000 lives.</p>
<p>Earlier in the trial, Yanukovych testified via video link from Moscow.</p>
<p>His lawyer has said that the former president would not be able to follow the verdict because he is in hospital after sustaining injuries on a Moscow tennis court in November.</p>
<p>Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence Yanukovych to 15 years in prison.</p>
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