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February 10, the Basmanny Court of Moscow was consider a request of the investigative agencies to extend the detention of Nadiya Savchenko for three more months – until May 13.
“She (Savchenko, – author’s note) will be delivered to the court for direct participation in the court session,” the court spokeswoman Hanna Fadeeva informed.
Savchenko’s lawyers expressed reservations that Savchenko, who has been on hunger strike already for 60 days, wouldn’t be able to come to the court session and should be hospitalized.
The people’s deputies from the Batkivshchyna party (“Fatherland”) that includes Savchenko came at the court session in Moscow. The press-service of the party informed about that.
In particular, Ivan Krulko, Sergiu Evtushok, Andriy Shevchenko and others came to support Savchenko. The party leader Yuliya Timoshenko said that not all of the deputies could come to Moscow because there was a lack of plane tickets.
As a reminder, yesterday the Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev advised Savchenko to stop her hunger strike. He thinks that such kind of a protest wouldn’t work to fight with Russia as a country, where the humane measures were not recognized.
As the correspondent of the Russian BBC service Rafael Saakov writes in his Twitter, the Savchenko’s fate will be determined at the meeting in Minsk.
He also writes that this time along with the Ukrainian deputies from the Batkivshchyna party, the Nadezhda Savchenko’s sister Vera is expected to come as well.
The Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow is ready to accommodate Savchenko during the investigation process if the court changes her arrest for house imprisonment.
The Batkivshchyna party’s deputy Ivan Krulko, who came to Moscow to support Savchenko, said that Nadezhda will start to eat again, when her measure of restraint is changed and she is delivered at least to the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow.
“Nadezhda said clearly that she will begin to eat, when she is on the territory of Ukraine and it can be the Embassy of Ukraine here, in Moscow,” Krulko emphasized.
Krulko is convinced that the decision about Savchenko is taken not in the court but in the Kremlin and depends on the negotiations at the highest level.
Savchenko promised to continue the hunger strike until the day of return to Ukraine or until the death in Russia. The journalist Evgeniy Feldman wrote about that in his Twitter.
The lawyer of Nadezhda Savchenko Mark Feygin wrote in his Twitter that his prediction regarding the court decision is pessimistic.
