MOSCOW (AFP) – Renowned Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich on Thursday warned President Vladimir Putin not to let die a Ukrainian military pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Moscow jail for over two months.Nadia Savchenko, a 33-year-old Ukrainian helicopter navigator, is being held in a Moscow prison hospital after launching a hunger strike on December 13. Russia accuses her of taking part in the killing of two Russian journalists in east Ukraine who died in shelling at a rebel checkpoint.Voinovich, 82, a novelist who spent a decade exiled by the Soviet authorities, condemned the charges against Savchenko as …read more
Source: Dunya TV
