Savchenko's lawyer says attempt made to discredit her with fake letter from Ukrainian president
KYIV. March 10 (Interfax) - Mark Feigin, a lawyer for Nadiya Savchenko, said that the letter allegedly sent to his client from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appeared to be a fake.
"I have to urgently report the following. The Ukrainian Consulate General and I became an object of a rather impudent special operation this morning. A fake letter from the Ukrainian president was handed over for Nadiya to discredit her after the end of the 'dry' hunger strike," the lawyer tweeted, putting the blame on the Kremlin.
Feigin apologized to those who had read the letter, which he had posted on Twitter. "We are the object of an operation, and we can do little to counteract this," the lawyer said.
Later on, Feigin wrote on Twitter that his micro-blog was being hacked 'right now'.
"Last night Vitaly Moskalenko, Ukrainian Consul General in Rostov-on-Don, received a phone call from the Ukrainian presidential administration with the request to permit to give them my contact number, in order to arrange the handover of a letter from Petro Poroshenko to Nadiya Savchenko. The person [from the administration] sent me the letter, and I handed it over to Nadiya today," he said.
"Messages were handed over to Savchenko earlier, with requests to stop the hunger strike from all her supporters. Among those people, besides others, was Petro Poroshenko. Nadiya stopped the hunger strike, having learned of the degree of support that is being given to her all across the world," Feigin wrote.
Feigin said, on Thursday morning, that Savchenko showed him a written statement declaring the end of her 'dry' hunger strike as a response to the letter from Poroshenko during their meeting at the detention center.