In July 2014, Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko — who had taken leave from the army to fight for a volunteer battalion — mysteriously appeared in Russian custody. Moscow accused her of calling in an artillery strike that killed two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine. But Savchenko’s lawyers say she is innocent and is being used as a political pawn in the Kremlin’s wider standoff with Ukraine and the West.
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Russian opposition supporters carry placards depicting Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian military pilot jailed in Russia, during a memorial march marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow, on Feb. 27.
