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Ukraine's Ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk has conveyed to the German side the request of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to send German doctors to Ukrainian pilot and MP Nadia Savchenko, who has been refusing to take food and water in a Russian detention facility for almost a week.

“On behalf of President @poroshenko I appealed to the German side with the request to send doctors from Germany to Nadia Savchenko as soon as possible,” Melnyk wrote on Twitter.