Russia and Ukraine’s presidents discussed the fate of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, and the two Russian servicemen captured in Ukraine, in a phone call on Monday.
Military pilot Savchenko is serving a jail sentence in Russia’s Rostov region for allegedly guiding a mortar strike, which hit a Russian state TV crew, killing two Russian journalists in Eastern Ukraine in June 2014. Widely seen as a politically motivated conviction, her defence insisted that Savchenko was captured by pro-Russian rebels at the time, thus she could not have been involved in the incident.
According to her lawyer’s version of events, her captors acted illegally …read more
Source: Newsweek
