Member of the PMC: Savchenko's condition is critical

The condition of the continuous hunger strike of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is critical. This was stated by a member of the PMC Valentina Cherevatenko, reported by Assistant Savchenko Oleg Mezentsev.

Savchenko is rapidly losing weight, she has very little saliva and urine. “According to the doctor who examined her, to transfer Nadia equivalent to death,” Cherevatenko quotes the Mezans.

On Saturday, Svachenko was visited by her sister Vera, lawyer Nikolai Polozov reports . “The state of health is very bad,” he notes.

On Friday evening, US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a telephone conversation with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, urged Savchenko and other prisoners, as well as fulfill the Minsk agreements. This was announced during the daily briefing by the press secretary of the State Department John Kirby.

At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine urged the Russian side to immediately allow Ukrainian doctors to Savchenko. "Despite the numerous appeals of the Ukrainian side to provide permission to admit Ukrainian doctors and consuls prisoners to the Ukrainian, as well as its extremely difficult health state, the Russian side still gives a negative answer," the statement said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also called for "fulfilling the previously stated requirements for its release and return to Ukraine in accordance with international law and Minsk agreements." “Once again, we emphasize that the Russian Federation is direct responsibility for the life and health of the People’s Deputy of Ukraine, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Nadezhda Savchenko,” the statement emphasizes.

Savchenko can exchange for Russians Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov, her lawyer Ilya Novikov said . He notes that the ending of their process turned out to be very compressed, on Monday the verdict will already be announced. “According to my information, albeit unofficial, the only option under discussion is only for hope and only while it is alive,” Novikov writes. “By external signs, it seems that this condition is conscious and accepted. We are waiting for Monday.”

On Thursday, during the Direct Line, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is in contact with the Ukrainian authorities on the issue of the future fate of Savchenko. “We are in contact on this issue with the leadership of Ukraine, our partners know our position, and in such matters it is better not to run ahead,” he told reporters, answering the question of the possibility of exchange or liberation of Savchenko.

On March 29, Savchenko reported that she would begin a dry hunger strike on April 6, the next day after the sentence received by her sentences to 22 years of general regime. She called the goal of the action to be sent to her homeland. “From the pre -trial detention center I will only go to Ukraine, and to any colony,” the prisoner emphasized in her letter. From midnight April 6, Savchenko began his action, as I planned .

On April 8, Novikov said that his client stopped using a shower and washbasin, "in order not to give a reason for speculation of cotton media."