Ukraine’s LGBT march organizers have invited pilot-turned-member-of-parliament Nadiya Savchenko to this year’s Kiev Pride, Russian news agency NSN reports.
Savchenko is widely admired in Ukraine after she was captured while fighting separatists in eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014 and spent nearly two years in Russian captivity. After a very public push for Russia to free her, the Ukrainian government secured her release and she was officially pardoned by the Kremlin last month.
Since then she has returned to Ukraine and entered politics, having been elected as a member of parliament while in captivity. She is viewed …read more
Source: Newsweek
