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Less than two years after being celebrated in Ukraine for her defiance toward Russian captors as a prisoner of war, opposition lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko is defending herself against accusations that the former military aviator was planning a terror attack on the Ukrainian parliament.

Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko alleged on March 15 that the state has “irrefutable proof” that Savchenko “planned, personally recruited, and personally gave instructions about how to commit a terrorist act” in parliament using grenades, mortars, and automatic weapons.

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