A Ukraine helicopter pilot accused in the deaths of two Russian journalists last year in war-ravaged eastern Ukraine has formally denied charges from Russian prosecutors, calling the case against her “a piece of rubbish.”
Pilot Nadiya Savchenko spoke Tuesday from a glass cage inside a courtroom in southwestern Russia, at the opening of her high-profile trial. “I never in my life shot at unarmed people,” she said. “I am a soldier, not a murderer. It’s all lies, from beginning to end.”
She faces 25 years in prison if convicted on charges that she acted as an aerial spotter last year in eastern …read more
Source: Voice of America
