Thursday 16 July 2015

Imprisoned Nadiya Savchenko

One year has already passed since that time, when Russian state power had imprisoned Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in Moscow jail. On 17th June 2014 senior lieutenant of volunteer battalion "Aydar" of Ukrainian army Nadiya Savchenko had been captivated by terrorists of so-called Luhansk People's Republic, while she was trying to help several Ukrainian soldiers to get out the terrorists' ambush nearly Stukalova Balka in Luhansk region. And on 23rd June 2014 she had been transported to the territory of Russian state, where further she had been imprisoned in Voronezh jail, and now she is in Moscow prison. Earlier Russian judges had charged N. Savchenko with the involvement in the murder of two Russian journalists A. Voloshyn and I. Kornelyuk in Donbas and with the illegal crossing of Russian state border, but in July of 2015 Russian judges changed their accusations and nowadays they accuse her of killing these Russian journalists as murder using dangerous method and of illegal border crossing. Ukrainian officer Savchenko, who was stolen by Russian citizens in Ukraine and was moved to Russian Federation, didn't recognize and doesn't recognize her guilt of the fictitious charges of Russian authorities and as own protest and disagreement with Russian judges' accusations she had carried out hunger strike two times - from 13th December 2014 till 12th March 2015 and from 16th March till 12th May 2015, which, of course, badly affected on her health. In Ukraine Nadiya Savchenko is officially admitted a political prisoner of Russian state power. She is the people's deputy of Batkivshchyna political party in Ukrainian parliament and is also a member of Ukrainian permanent delegation in Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). But all together didn't help to change decision of Russian judges and on 10th June 2015 Basmannyy law court of the city of Moscow prolonged Savchenko's arrest until 30th September 2015. Though Savchenko's lawyers gave Russian law court the proof of her innocence - that she had been captivated 1 hour and a half before the murder of that two Russian journalists - Russian judges refused to organize jury trial in the case of Nadiya Savchenko. At first Russian judges said about 13 or 15 years of imprisonment for Savchenko, but on 13th July 2015 they have decided that she could be sentenced to 25 years in Russian jail.
Tragedy of Savchenko is not only personal tragedy for Nadiya and her family, but it's also drama for all Ukraine's citizens, because Savchenko's case demonstrates how Ukrainian citizen might be stolen, captivated and transported abroad by foreigners and might be jailed in another state if its state power (in this case - Russian president Vladimir Putin) wanted. And neither Savchenko's status of Ukrainian people's deputy and Ukrainian delegate in PACE, nor worsening of her health, nor public meetings and political speeches to support Nadiya Savchenko around the world don't stop that Russian lynching, created by Russian modern tsar-president Putin. Properly speaking, it's global drama, because it shows how desire of one or several powerful people of the globe can't respect sovereignty and can break laws of other countries, if only such people wish, so then it means that the whole world is unprotected and lawlessness rules on the Earth. Those global politicians, who understand all danger of this dramatic situation with the officer Savchenko, must make the most of political, economic and financial influence of their countries to free Nadiya Savchenko.