A court in Moscow has rejected an appeal to release a Ukrainian female helicopter pilot who has been on hunger strike since mid-December in a Russian prison.
“Nadiya Savchenko” by Authorized Ukrainian TV channel «Inter» Youtube stream – Podrobytsi (Details) News Programming. 25.01.2015, at 57:07/2:07:13 (Creative Commons Attribution). Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Nadezhda Savchenko has been in Russian custody since June on charges that she provided guidance for a mortar attack that killed two Russian journalists who were covering the war in eastern Ukraine.