
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine protest in connection with the export of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to Russia and requires immediate provision of information about all the circumstances of the case. This was reported by "Interfax-Ukraine" with reference to the press service of the department.
Earlier in a number of media outlets there was information that the militias took out a captured Ukrainian pilot to Russia. The fact that Savchenko is located in the investigative insulator of Voronezh in the Russian Federation, her Russian lawyer Nikolai Shulzhenko said (according to TSN television channel). According to the lawyer, who is quoted by the Ukrainian channel, the pilot feels normally, the conditions of the detention of her are satisfactory.
The information that Savchenko is in Voronezh confirmed, according to TSN, and the sister of the pilot Vera. According to the sister, in Russia Nadezhda Savchenko is accused of involvement in the death of two Russian journalists. The separatists who captured the girl previously stated that it was she who worked as a gunner of mortar shelling during which Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin died . The pilot Savchenko disappeared about a week ago - there was no information about her whereabouts.
The 31-year-old navigator was captured under the city of Happiness (Lugansk Region) in June, after about 30 days of battles as part of the Aidar volunteer battalion. According to media reports, the militias were ready to exchange the pilot for four militants, but the negotiations on the release of Savchenko were repeatedly broke.
On June 20, a video appeared with an interrogation of a girl, who bravely held on a conversation with people who captivated her. After that, several petitions appeared on the Internet with a demand to free Savchenko.
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine emphasized that actions to export the pilot to the territory of Russia "will not be left without an adequate response from Ukraine and the international community," and demanded from Russia to provide information on the export of Savchenko.
"Ukraine requires the Russian side to the Ukrainian official representatives of complete and exhaustive information about the circumstances of the export of Nadezhda Savchenko, an objective investigation of this fact and the punishment of guilty, immediate admission of the consul for the provision of legal assistance to the citizen," the department said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expects Savchenko from taking measures to take measures and calls on the international community to "condemn the illegal actions of Russia."
The official commentary of the Russian Foreign Ministry has not yet been followed.
Nadezhda Savchenko passed the army school of the Airborne Forces, served as part of the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent in Iraq. After that, in 2009, she graduated from Kharkov University of Air Forces named after Ivan Kozhedub.
This is noted that Savchenko is a rather public representative of the Ukrainian army. Even before the political crisis in Ukraine, she was the hero of several shows and documentaries about the armed forces of the country.