She was a soldier, a pilot and a prisoner in Russia. Now she is an MP, and a force in Ukrainian politics.
AT THREE o'clock in the morning on May 25th, guards roused Nadiya Savchenko in her prison cell in southern Russia, told her to pack her things and whisked her to an airport. "I didn't know if I was flying to Ukraine or to Siberia," says the Ukrainian military pilot, who spent nearly two years in Russian captivity on fabricated charges. Only when she saw yellow and blue stripes on the plane did she realise that she was heading home.
