On Aug. 27 the Sovetsky District Court of Voronezh prolonged the detention of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko until October 30, an Interfax correspondent reported from the court hall.
On Wednesday the Sovetsky District Court of Voronezh prolonged the detention of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko until October 30, an Interfax correspondent reported from the court hall.
Savchenko’s defense attorney Mark Feygin asked the court to release Savchenko on 1 million rubles’ bail. He argued that the evidence provided by the investigation is insufficient and incomplete and does not prove Savchenko’s responsibility for the crimes she has been charged with.
A court earlier sanctioned Savchenko’s pre-trial detention until August 30.
The investigation asked the court to extend her detention until October 30.
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 was said on July 8 that she was being held at the Voronezh pre-trial detention facility in Russia.
Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee claimed that Savchenko had crossed the border without documents under the guise of a refugee and was detained later for identification, after which it turned out that she was suspected of playing some role in the killing of Russian TV journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Luhansk. On July 9, Russia indicted her for complicity in murder.
