An estimated 1,000 people gathered on Independence Square, Kyiv's central square, to support and demand that the Kremlin immediately release Nadia Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot who has been imprisoned for 20 months in Russia. Savchenko faces 23 years in prison if convicted of false charges of murdering two journalists in the war zone in Luhansk Oblast in June 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, hanged in effigy, was a prime target of the protesters' wrath as the Kremlin's war against Ukraine drags on more than two years.
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