Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Mark Feygin: Russia is using jailed Ukrainian pilot as a pawn in its game with the west
Russian police vehicles block the court yard in Donetsk, in the Rostov-on-Don region of Russia, on July 30, 2015, where the high-profile trial of the 34-year-old Ukrainian airforce helicopter navigator Nadezhda (Nadya) Savchenko was on July 30.
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was captured by separatists in the east of the country in June last year. The Moscow-backed militia battalion Zarya handed her over to Russian special services, to use her as a propaganda tool against the new government in Kyiv.
