Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian army officer and pilot who was captured in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and spirited to prison in Moscow, may die in captivity there on the hunger strike she has pursued for 45 days, her lawyer wrote on January 26.
As her attorney, Mark Feygin, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a letter to release Savchenko, her supporters mounted a global campaign of rallies and Twitter messages, and European parliament members voted a resolution in her defense.
Savchenko was captured by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s Luhansk province last summer, and then hustled secretly across the border into Russia, …read more
Source: Newsweek
