Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who has been on a hunger strike since last week to protest the Russian criminal case against her, has begun taking liquids, according to her lawyer.
Nikolai Polozov posted on Twitter Thursday that his client has stopped her hunger strike, a day after she appeared in court to face accusations she killed two Russian journalists in a 2014 mortar attack in Ukraine’s Luhansk region.
Wednesday, while Savchenko appeared in a Russian courtroom to face the charges, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko posted video on social media calling Savchenko’s trial a “farce” conducted in a “kangaroo court.”
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Source: Voice of America
