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Ukrainian servicemen and MP Nadia Savchenko, who has been convicted in Russia, has told her sister Vira that two Ukrainians, who were previously held by militants in Donetsk, were brought to her pre-trial detention center in Novocherkassk, Rostov region, Russia.

“At our meeting, Nadia told me that today (on Wednesday, April 27) two guys previously held in basements in Donetsk region have been brought to pre-trial detention facility No. 3 in Novocherkassk, Russia… Are they our soldiers? In any case, people are being ‘engulfed’ by the prison of nations – Russia… “Vira Savchenko wrote in her Facebook page on April29.

Savchenko has been held in Russian custody since July 2014 after being kidnapped by Russia-backed separatists and illegally taken across the Ukrainian border.

On March 22, 2016, the Donetsk Court of the Rostov region found Savchenko guilty of killing Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk, and Anton Voloshin, by a group of people by a previous concert on hatred and enmity motives, and sentenced her to 22 years in a penal colony. The court also found her guilty of attempted murder and illegally crossing the Russian border.

Savchenko is currently held in pre-trial detention facility No. 3 in Novocherkassk.