Savchenko: I'll hold out until March

Nadezhda Savchenko refused to stop the hunger strike on the call of the ECHR. This was based on the results of a visit to the political prisoner by a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Elena Masyuk.

"I refused my crying mother, I refused my beloved sister, I refused the Ukrainians, I refused the Russians who treat me well! Will I listen to the ECHR?" - said Savchenko.

Savchenko also said that she would not ask for pardon, she does not consider herself guilty of anything. “Let there be a court. Only let them accelerate. Until March I will last, and until May I will not live,” she said.

The European Court of Human Rights on Friday called on Nadezhda Savchenko to stop a hunger strike. At the same time, the court refused to apply preliminary measures according to the 39th rule of the regulations in the form of the Russian authorities indicating the need for immediate release from arrest. The ECHR explained that temporary measures can only be applied if there is an inevitable risk of irreparable damage. "

As Masyuk notes, this decision was outraged by Savchenko. "They want me to tighten the hunger strike so that I have a dry hunger strike? I can do it!" she said.

Savchenko has been starving for 66 days against illegal criminal prosecution and detention under arrest in Russia. She stated that she would continue the action until returning to her homeland or to death. Meanwhile, on February 10, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Arthur Karpov extended the hostage to the arrest until May 13.

31-year-old Savchenko fought in the east of Ukraine as part of the Aidar volunteer battalion and in June 2014 was captured by the LPR terrorists under the city of the happiness of the Luhansk region. On July 8, it became known that it was transported to the Voronezh pre -trial detention center. In Russia, the prisoner was charged with murder aiding. Savchenko does not plead guilty.

On July 2, the Novousmansky district court of the Voronezh region arrested the prisoner. Since then, her arrest has repeatedly extended.

On January 25, 2015, Savchenko was charged with another charge - in the "illegal crossing of the border." Meanwhile, she was taken to Russia by force and under escort.

On Thursday, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that at a meeting of the Norman Four in Minsk, Vladimir Putin promised to release Savchenko soon . "I raised the issue of liberation of Nadezhda Savchenko, and I was informed that this should be done in the near future after the completion of the medical examination and preliminary conclusions of the investigation," the Ukrainian leader said.

However, on Friday, Russia refused to release Nadezhda Savchenko. “She was arrested by a court decision, and it was the court to further determine the degree of her guilt and the measure of punishment,” said the representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin. Earlier, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov assured that his boss at a meeting in Minsk did not give any promises regarding Savchenko.