Peskov: Vera Savchenko asked to exchange her for her sister

Vera Savchenko, sister of Nadezhda Savchenko, turned to Vladimir Putin, expressing her readiness to sit in a pre -trial detention center in exchange for the release of the prisoner, but she was refused. According to Interfax, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated this.

"She was responsible that the investigation was being conducted under our legislation, such actions that can be compared with hostage, we do not produce," the agency reports the official of the official.

When exactly the prisoner’s sister asked Putin, the agency does not specify.

The day before, Nadezhda Savchenko announced the resumption of a hunger strike . In a letter to the wild, she explained that she could not go to a "compromise with dishonor." The prisoner assured that she would starve before returning to Ukraine or until her last day in Russia.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian doctors who visited Savchenko on March 14 warned her against the resumption of a hunger strike. They explained that with a second rejection of food, negative consequences would come much faster than the first time.

The first hunger strike Savchenko lasted 82 days - from December 13, 2014 to March 5, 2015. By the end of this action, the prisoner’s life was under a serious threat.