Female Pilot Jailed In Russia Becomes Ukrainian Hero

Nadiia Savchenko is a Ukrainian military pilot and former officer of the Ukrainian army, captured by proRussian rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014, later handed over to Russia, and charged with the killing of two Russian journalists during the 2014 insurgency in Donbass. Judge Artur Karpov refused Nadiia Savchenko s appeal to the court about the nonrecognition of her diplomatic immunity as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Lawyers were insisting that any opened case against