Mother of correspondent Voloshin killed in Donbas dies
DONETSK, Rostov region. Oct 6 (Interfax) - A judge hearing the case against the Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko in the city of Donetsk in Russia's Rostov Region has announced the death of the mother of Igor Voloshin, one of the two journalists whose killing Savchenko is being charged with.
"The court has received a report about the death of Irina Voloshina," the judge said before the session began on Tuesday.
Voloshina was treated as a victim in the Savchenko case. Last week prosecutors petitioned for her questioning to be cancelled because she was seriously ill and being treated at a hospital in Moscow.
Savchenko is charged with murder and attempted murder.
According to the inquiry, on June 17, 2014 the Ukrainian armed forces officer N. Savchenko was at an Aidar battalion base near the village of Metalist in the Slovianoserbsk district of the Luhansk region. There she was conducting secret surveillance and artillery-fire correction against a section of a militia outpost in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, where civilians, including three Russian correspondents of the Russian VGTRK channel, were located. As a result of shelling, two of them, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, were killed.
Savchenko has pleaded not guilty. In a sign of protest against her arrest and charges the Ukrainian woman announced has a hunger strike several times.