Many Ukrainians have uneasily watched the behavior of “hero” military aviator turned lawmaker Nadiya Savchenko grow increasingly erratic since her return to Kyiv from a Russian prison in 2016.
But the Savchenko saga took its darkest turn yet on March 22 when the woman once dubbed “Ukraine’s Joan of Arc” and holder of a Hero of Ukraine medal was stripped of her parliamentary immunity and detained for allegedly plotting to overthrow the very government that worked so hard to secure her freedom from detention in Russia.
