Ukraine's most popular politician, who spent nearly two years in Russian and rebel captivity, has accused Russians of having the mentality of slaves in an interview with Ukrainian news site Apostrof.
Nadiya Savchenko, a former military pilot, who was captured during the height of combat in east Ukraine two years ago, was elected to parliament while in captivity as a member of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s populist, pro-EU Batkivshchyna party. She appeared to have been captured while fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and forcibly sent to Russia, though Russian officials denied this, insisting that she had tried to sneak into Russia and been apprehended at the border.
