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Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko went on a hunger strike
Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of complicity in the murder of journalists, involvement in the murder of VGTRK Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, as well as illegal border crossing, went on a hunger strike because a doctor was not allowed to see her.
Savchenko’s lawyer Mark Feigin announced this on his Twitter.
Today in the Moscow City Court, Nadezhda, who participated via videoconference, went on a hunger strike. Due to the denial of access to an otolaryngologist
— Mark Feygin (@mark_feygin) December 15, 2014 According to Feigin, Savchenko has been on hunger strike for two days now - since December 13. Savchenko is in a pre-trial detention center; by a court decision, her arrest was extended until February 13, 2015. On December 22, 2014, the Moscow City Court will consider the pilot’s complaint about the extension of her preventive measure. According to investigators, Savchenko committed a crime under Part 5 of Article 33, paragraphs. “a, b, f, g, l” Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – “assistance in the murder of two or more persons in connection with the performance of official activities, in a generally dangerous manner, motivated by political hatred, committed by a group of persons.” According to the Investigative Committee, the girl is a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a military specialty of “operator-gunner of the Mi-24 helicopter.” During military operations in the Lugansk region in June of this year, Savchenko allegedly joined the Aidar battalion. “Having learned the coordinates of the location of a group of Russian VGTRK journalists and other civilians near Lugansk, she passed these coordinates on to the militants. After that, it was at these coordinates that a mortar shot was fired, as a result of which VGTRK employees Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were killed,” the indictment says. Then, according to investigators, Savchenko herself crossed the border into Russia under the guise of a refugee.