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Causing refusal
The collegium of the Donetsk district court of the Rostov region as part of Leonid Stepanenko (chairman), Ali Khaibulaev and Evgenia Chernysh refused to defend Nadezhda Savchenko in the request to interrogate seven witnesses in the case of two militants of the LPR battalion of the Lunar and five Lugansk doctors. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".
Earlier on Thursday, appropriate applications for witnesses were received by the court. As Mediazona clarifies , two Dawn drivers were refusing to come to Russia for interrogation: Dmitry Nikishin, who took the mortally wounded VGTRK employee Igor Kornelyuk, and Sergey Vernidub, who delivered fragments of the body of another employee of VGTRK - Anton Voloshin to the morgue. The death of both Russian television propagandists is charged with Savchenko.
Five doctors are employees of the 7th city hospital of Lugansk, where they brought a dying Korneluk. According to Stepanenko, the doctors in their petitions explained the refusal to speak in court by the fact that "they do not want to go to Russia."
All seven asked the judicial collegium to limit themselves to the announcement of their testimony given at the investigation.
The prosecutor of the applications supported. Lawyer Savchenko Ilya Novikov, however, said the protest. He drew attention to the fact that the testimony of witnesses coincide almost literally, and the petitions came to the fax of the court at the same time. In this regard, the lawyer did not rule out the pressure on witnesses. He stated that it was necessary to interrogate at least one witness in person.
However, the court took the side of the prosecutor.
As the Ukrainian Pravda reported , the day before, the sister of the defendant, Vera Savchenko, told on the air of the 112 -Ukraine television channel that Nadezhda Savchenko made a will and does not exclude the renewal of the hunger strike during the investigation. “Hope is struggling in this way. This is her weapon,” Vera Savchenko explained.
Savchenko’s hope points “A”, “E”, “f”, “l” of part 2 of Article 105 (the murder with a generally hazardous way of two or more persons based on political hatred, perfect by a group of persons), part 3 of Article 30 are paragraphs “A”, “E”, “F”, “L” of Article 105 (attempted crime) and part 1 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code (illegal crossing of the border). The pilot threatens up to 25 years in the colony.
As stated in the case, Savchenko, after the start of Russian aggression in Ukraine, who served in the Aidar volunteer battalion, on June 17, 2014 handed over the coordinates for artillery shelling to the battalion, as a result of which employees of Korneluk and Voloshin died. The investigation explained the inclusion in the case of the episode of the assassination attempt on the murder by the fact that other civilians could die as a result of this shelling. It is also stated that in the future Savchenko illegally entered the territory of Russia, where she was detained.
In reality, Savchenko was captured by the militants of the LPR even before shelling, during which Korneluk and Voloshin were killed, and was illegally taken to Russia, where the case was fabricated against her.
On September 29, in court, Savchenko stated that she went to Eastern Ukraine to protect her land ( 