Closed trial of Nadezhda Savchenko to start in Rostov region on July 30


Preliminary hearings of the Ukrainian pilot’s case will take place in Donetsk city court, said the court spokesman Tatiana Dieva.

Earlier, Ms Savchenko lawyers reported that their client was transferred under escort from Moscow to Rostov region, although the defense and the pilot were against of the case trasfered to Donetsk city court.

Nadezhda Savchenko faces up to 25 years in prison. In Russia, the Ukrainian woman is accused of murdering two TV journalists, who were killed during the fighting in Donbas, and illegal border crossing. The pilot denies any wrongdoing and says that she was kidnapped on the territory of Ukraine and taken to Russia by force.

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