Moscow - The defense team of Ukrainian military officer Nadia Savchenko says the investigation has not informed the lawyers that some proof of her guilt was discovered in her phone.
“The materials that we have seen don’t contain anything about a
seized phone. The investigation hasn’t shown us anything, and the
documents concerning the choosing of the pretrial restrictive measure
contain very scarce information,” Savchenko’s defense lawyer Nikolai
Polozov told Interfax on Thursday, July 24.
“The general [a high-ranking Russian Investigative Committee officer]
doesn’t say anything in his interview about how Nadia appeared on
Russian territory. If there is a stamp in her passport confirming that
she crossed the border, then all investigative procedures that are being
conducted are legitimate. If she was transported with a sack on her
head, then none of the Investigative Committee’s actions have legal
force,” Polozov said.
Alexander Drymanov, the chief of the Russian Investigative Committee
department for crimes related to the use of prohibited means and methods
of warfare, said in an interview published in the Thursday issue of
Kommersant that the Investigative Committee had discovered proof of
Savchenko’s complicity in killing Russian TV journalists Anton Voloshin
and Igor Kornelyuk in her telephone.
It was reported earlier that Savchenko, a 31-year-old navigator, was
fighting with the Aidar volunteer battalion in eastern Ukraine when she
was captured by illegal armed units in June near the town of Schastia, a
suburb of Luhansk. It turned out on July 8 that Savchenko was being
held at a detention facility in Voronezh. She has not admitted her guilt
and claimed that she had been abducted from Ukrainian territory.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed the Prosecutor
General’s Office and the Security Service to look into the circumstances
of Savchenko’s transfer to Russian territory. Poroshenko also
instructed the Foreign Ministry and other government agencies to take
every possible measure to secure the Ukrainian pilot’s unconditional
release by Russia and her return home.
