The Ukrainian State Border Service denies Russia's claims that Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko, who was captured by militants in eastern Ukraine and then emerged at a Russian detention facility in Voronezh, had officially crossed the Ukrainian-Russian border.
“According to the Ukrainian State Border Service’s official information, Nadia Savchenko didn’t cross the border between Ukraine and Russia,” Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a news conference on Thursday, July 10.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry are taking all measures they can to secure Savchenko’s release, and the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Service are looking into the circumstances of her transfer to Russia, Lysenko said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, July 9 to address Savchenko’s situation.
The Ukrainian prosecutor general had said earlier that he was unaware how the captured Ukrainian pilot resurfaced at a Russian detention facility.
The Russian Investigative Committee has claimed that Savchenko was apprehended in Russia after crossing the Ukrainian-Russian border without documents and posing as a refugee.
