Free Nadiya Savchenko!

Today is the international Free Nadiya Savchenko Day.

Nadiya is a 33 – year-old fighter pilot from Ukraine who was captured by the Russians in Ukraine, dragged across the border into Russia, charged with crossing the Russian border without a visa (which she obviously did although not of her own will) and a host of other ridiculous things.

To protest against her illegal detention, Nadiya declared a hunger strike. At first, she accepted glucose during the strike but Russia’s media celebrity Doctor Lisa (like our Dr Phil but with homicidal tendencies) came to visit Nadiya in prison and started making fun of her, saying that this wasn’t a real hunger strike. So Nadiya refused the glucose.

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In 2004-5 Nadiya served as part of the peacekeeping forces in Iraq at the request of the US. And today the US leadership is pretending not to know that Nadiya is dying a slow death in a Russian jail.

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The only reason for the Russians to keep torturing Nadiya is to demonstrate their utter impunity to the world.

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Time is running out for this heroic woman. The Russians are torturing her because through Nadiya they can torture all Ukrainians.

And while the impotent Russian opposition is congratulating itself for today’s useless march, Nadiya is dying and fresh Russian troops are pouring across the border into Ukraine. And the Ukrainian woman who was walking next to the dissident Nemtsov when he was killed has been kidnapped by the Russians and is being held in an undisclosed location by them.

2 thoughts on “Free Nadiya Savchenko!

  1. Fry Nadia. She travelled from Lviv to kill Russian-speaking people living in Eastern Ukraine, not vice-a-versa.

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