What did Kyiv's verdict on Yanukovych decide?

What happened in a Kyiv courtroom on 24 January 2019? The Obolon District Court of Kyiv found former president Viktor Yanukovych guilty of state treason and sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison.

The ruling was delivered without the defendant present, which is what in absentia means: the sentence was passed on a man who was not in the courtroom to hear it.

The verdict came in the same week as a separate piece of regional news. On 21 January 2019, at least 11 crew members were killed after two ships caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea. According to reports at the time, the fire broke out while one vessel was transferring fuel to the other.

The two stories were unconnected in what was reported. One concerned a court judgement in the Ukrainian capital; the other a maritime disaster in waters near Crimea. Taken together, they show the range of news that Ukraine and its neighbourhood produced across those few days in January 2019.