DONETSK, Russia (AP) — Defiant in her closing statement Wednesday to a Russian court, Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko brandished her middle finger, burst into the Ukrainian national anthem and declared her trial in the death of two Russian journalists to be “the farce of Kremlin puppets.”
Savchenko’s case has sparked anger at home and sharp criticism from the West since her detention under murky circumstances in 2014.
She was fighting with a volunteer brigade against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Russia claims she was acting as a spotter and called in the coordinates for a mortar attack that killed two Russian journalists …read more
Source: KXAN
