Upon hearing that Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, held in a Moscow jail for nearly nine months, was ending a hunger strike that had threatened her life, the national parliament in Kyiv broke into a spontaneous applause.
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Ukrainian airforce officer Nadezhda (Nadia) Savchenko smiles inside a defendants' cage as she attends a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow on March 4, 2015.
