MOSCOW: A hunger-striking Ukrainian military pilot on trial in Russia resumed drinking water Thursday after receiving a prank letter claiming to be from Ukraine’s president, asking her to end her action, her defence team said.
Nadiya Savchenko will continue a week-long hunger strike until the verdict later this month, said her lawyer Mark Feigin.
Her lawyers said she acted on a written request from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, but it emerged later that the letter came from a celebrity prankster accused of having ties to the Russian security services.
“Nadezhda halted only a ‘dry’ hunger strike,” Feigin told AFP. “She will be fasting …read more
Source: theSun
