KIEV, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s wife appealed to US first lady Michelle Obama on Monday to join the international campaign to secure the release and return of Nadiya Savchenko from Russia.
Ukrainian army helicopter pilot Savchenko is accused in the June 2014 killing of two Russian journalists in her war-torn country’s separatist east.
Russian prosecutors have demanded a 23-year jail sentence for the 34-year-old former Ukrainian volunteer battalion member.
Russia’s trial of Savchenko has been condemned by Kiev and the West as a political sham.
The Ukrainian president’s website said Maryna Poroshenko asked the US first lady in a letter to make her …read more
Source: The Manila Times
