Ukrainian MPs demand probe into former pilot Savchenko, allege treason


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  • Thursday, 19 Jan 2017

Ukrainian lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko attends a hearing against Moscow's sentencing of Ukrainian prisoners Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk, who were found guilty of fighting against Russian troops during the Chechen War in the 1990s, at Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, October 26, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers called on Wednesday for an investigation into what they say are anti-Ukrainian actions by Nadiya Savchenko, a helicopter navigator who returned to Ukraine to a hero's welcome last year after being held in a Russian jail.

Savchenko, herself now a lawmaker, has sparked anger since her return by holding talks with pro-Russian separatists without the government's consent and also for publishing secret lists of people who were captured or are missing in the eastern conflict.

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