Ukraine calls on Putin to release pilot from psychiatric clinic


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Dec 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine called on Russia on Thursday to release a Ukrainian military pilot from a Moscow psychiatric clinic where she is being held over accusations of involvement in the deaths of two Russian journalists.

Nadia Savchenko, 33, who was captured by separatists in eastern and sent to Russia, has since been elected in absentia to parliament in Kiev, one of a new wave of deputies who have fought against separatism or who took part in Kiev's 'Euromaidan' revolution last winter.

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