DONETSK: A Ukrainian pilot who is charged with complicity to murder in the deaths of two Russian journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine has arrived to court in southwestern Russia where the verdict in her trial is to continue. Nadezhda Savchenko served in a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels and was captured by separatist rebels in July 2014 in eastern Ukraine before she surfaced in Russia under disputed circumstances. The Ukrainian government says Savchenko is a prisoner of war and should be released under current truce agreements in eastern Ukraine. Prosecutors, who say Savchenko called in coordinates for the shelling that …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
