Voronezh court leaves Ukrainian pilot Savchenko in custody until Aug 30
VORONEZH. July 10 (Interfax) - The Voronezh Regional Court ruled on Thursday to leave Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko in pretrial custody until August 30, having heard her defense lawyer's appeal against her arrest, court press secretary Lada Petina told Interfax.
Savchenko, a 31-year-old navigator, served with the Ukrainian peacekeeping force in Iraq, after which she graduated from the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv Air Force University in 2009.
She was fighting with the Aidar volunteer battalion in eastern Ukraine when she was captured in June near the town of Shchastya, a suburb of Luhansk.
It was reported on Wednesday that Savchenko is being held at a detention facility in Voronezh and has been indicted for complicity in murder. "Investigative bodies have indicted Savchenko for complicity in the killing of VGTRK journalists outside Luhansk," a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee said.
The Investigative Committee claims that Savchenko was detained in Russia after crossing the border without documents under the guise of a refugee.
