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Ukrainian deputy Nadiya Savchenko has been detained for allegedly plotting to kill the nation’s leaders in a Moscow-backed coup, less than two years after she received a hero’s welcome on her return home from a Russian jail.

Ms. Savchenko, a former military pilot, was held in parliament by agents from Ukraine’s SBU security service, moments after fellow deputies voted to lift her immunity from prosecution having heard an extraordinary account of her supposed crimes.

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