{"id":26163,"date":"2017-04-05T21:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/hayesbrown\/this-ukiranian-woman-might-starve-to-death-in-a-russian-pris"},"modified":"2017-04-05T21:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T21:45:44","slug":"this-ukrainian-woman-might-starve-to-death-in-a-russian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/26163","title":{"rendered":"This Ukrainian Woman Might Starve To Death In A Russian Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<b>She&rsquo;s Ukraine&rsquo;s first female air force pilot and a national hero.<\/b> But for the last 80 days, she&rsquo;s been on hunger strike to protest the conditions in the Russian prison where she is being held.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"buzz_sub_buzz\" class=\"c suplist_article suplist_list_show \">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129421\">\t\t\t<h2>This is Nadia Savchenko. She is what some — particularly those in Ukraine — would call a badass. To Russia, though, she’s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/02\/12\/nadiya-savchenko-the-prisoner-at-the-center-of-ukraines-cease-fire-deal\/\">important propaganda asset<\/a> and a woman they allege is complicit in the murder of journalists.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"400\" alt=\"This is Nadia Savchenko. She is what some &mdash; particularly those in Ukraine &mdash; would call a badass. To Russia, though, she's an important propaganda asset and a woman they allege is complicit in the murder of journalists.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Sergei Karpukhin \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit  \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129756\">\t\t\t<h2>Savchenko, 33, was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6GWePLY1T-M\">first woman<\/a> to train as an air force pilot in Ukraine and so far is the only woman to be trained on the Soviet-made Sukhoi Su-24 as well as the Mil Mi-24 helicopter.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"938\" alt=\"Savchenko, 33, was the first woman to train as an air force pilot in Ukraine and so far is the only woman to be trained on the Soviet-made Sukhoi Su-24 as well as the Mil Mi-24 helicopter.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"><span class=\"sub_buzz_desc\">She was also featured in a U.N. Development Programme-sponsored push for equality in Ukraine&rsquo;s military <\/span> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_w_caption\">United Nations Development Programme in Europe and CIS \/ Via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/undpeuropeandcis\/5472888693\">Flickr: undpeuropeandcis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129655\">\t\t\t<h2>Last year, Savchenko enlisted with the Aidar Battalion, a volunteer force that until recently was outside the Ukrainian military hierarchy and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.es.amnesty.org\/uploads\/media\/eur500402014en.pdf\">accused of abuses<\/a>. In June, she was captured while fighting pro-Russia rebel forces in eastern Ukraine.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"411\" alt=\"Last year, Savchenko enlisted with the Aidar Battalion, a volunteer force that until recently was outside the Ukrainian military hierarchy and has been accused of abuses. In June, she was captured while fighting pro-Russia rebel forces in eastern Ukraine.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Igor Golovniov \/ AP<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_video video_youtube buzz_superlist_item_wide video_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129051\">\t\t\t\t<h2>Footage posted on YouTube showed her handcuffed to a pipe and under interrogation — but defiant — in an undisclosed location.<\/h2>\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content c\">\t    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"video-embed-big video-embed-area bf_dom\" id=\"video_buzz_element_3703425_5129051\"><span class=\"print\">Video available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=2SnTu9RW_Uw\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=2SnTu9RW_Uw<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=2SnTu9RW_Uw\">youtube.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129400\">\t\t\t<h2>Russian authorities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/kyiv-savchenko-ministry-protest-luhansk-note-transfer-voronezh\/25450623.html\">took her into captivity<\/a> in July and accused her with being involved in the death of two Russian journalists in Ukraine. Savchenko, they claim, intentionally targeted the journalists with the mortar that killed them.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" alt=\"Russian authorities took her into captivity in July and accused her with being involved in the death of two Russian journalists in Ukraine. Savchenko, they claim, intentionally targeted the journalists with the mortar that killed them.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Maxim Zmeyev \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit  \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129943\">\t\t\t<h2>Savchenko, who a Russian court has ordered to be held in <a href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/russia\/20150210\/1018064789.html\">pre-trial detention<\/a> until at least May now, was actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/ukraine-russia-savchenko-pilot-pace-immunity-hunger-strike\/26814383.html\">elected to the Ukrainian parliament<\/a> while behind bars.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" alt=\"Savchenko, who a Russian court has ordered to be held in pre-trial detention until at least May now, was actually elected to the Ukrainian parliament while behind bars.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"><span class=\"sub_buzz_desc\">Savchenko holds a sign inside a defendants&rsquo; cage as she attends a hearing in Moscow on Feb. 10, 2015, which reads, &ldquo;I was born Ukrainian, and I die Ukrainian&rdquo; <\/span> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_w_caption\">Maxim Zmeyev \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_text  buzz_superlist_item_wide   \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5130090\">\t\t<h2>Meanwhile, the details surrounding just how Savchenko got into Russia are still murky.<\/h2>\t<br>\t<p class=\"sub_buzz_desc\">Moscow claims she was caught trying to sneak across the border as a refugee. Others maintain that she was kidnapped and hauled across the border by rebels after her plane was shot down. <\/p>\n<p>Either way, the U.S. and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe have both called for her release, with the latter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/ukraine-russia-savchenko-pilot-pace-immunity-hunger-strike\/26814383.html\">accepting her as a member<\/a> and granting her international immunity.<\/p>\n<p>“The United States deplores her continued ill-treatment and is deeply concerned by reports of her deteriorating health,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki <a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2015\/02\/237923.htm\">said<\/a> on Wednesday. “By any standard, Russia’s detention and treatment of Ms. Savchenko is unacceptable.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5129326\">\t\t\t<h2>Ukrainians aren’t buying the story that Savchenko was caught while claiming refugee status either, instead making her a national figure. On Sunday, a crowd rallied in Kiev in support of her release.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"498\" alt=\"Ukrainians aren't buying the story that Savchenko was caught while claiming refugee status either, instead making her a national figure. On Sunday, a crowd rallied in Kiev in support of her release.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Sergei Supinsky \/ AFP \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5130438\">\t\t\t<h2>“She’s our Joan of Arc,” Valeriy Ryabykh, a military expert with the Defense Express magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/defiance-of-nadiya-savchenko-a-captured-ukrainian-navigator-inspires-her-country\/2014\/08\/06\/f4730c81-9498-4486-ac95-9b6b247589d9_story.html\">said to the Washington Post<\/a> last year. Ukrainian president Peter Poroshenko <a href=\"http:\/\/en.interfax.com.ua\/news\/general\/253290.html\">awarded her the title<\/a> of “Hero of Ukraine” on Monday.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"413\" alt='&ldquo;She&rsquo;s our Joan of Arc,&rdquo; Valeriy Ryabykh, a military expert with the Defense Express magazine, said to the Washington Post last year. Ukrainian president Peter Poroshenko awarded her the title of \"Hero of Ukraine\" on Monday.'>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Sergei Karpukhin \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5130504\">\t\t\t<h2>Savchenko has also been on a hunger strike for the last 80 days. In recent days, she’s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/europe\/russia\/150228\/nadiya-savchenko-ukraine-pilot-russia-prison\">begun refusing<\/a> the glucose injections that have been her only sustenance.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" alt=\"Savchenko has also been on a hunger strike for the last 80 days. In recent days, she's begun refusing the glucose injections that have been her only sustenance.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Maxim Zmeyev \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3703425_5130672\">\t\t\t<h2>A member of Russia’s own human rights council <a href=\"http:\/\/president-sovet.ru\/presscenter\/news\/read\/2255\/\">on Friday said<\/a> that she’s begun “to have serious problems” with her internal organs and that she “could die in the next few days.”<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" alt='A member of Russia&rsquo;s own human rights council on Friday said that she&rsquo;s begun &ldquo;to have serious problems&rdquo; with her internal organs and that she \"could die in the next few days.&rdquo;'>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Maxim Zmeyev \/ Reuters<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/hayesbrown\/this-ukiranian-woman-might-starve-to-death-in-a-russian-pris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/hayesbrown\/this-ukiranian-woman-might-starve-to-death-in-a-russian-pris<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&rsquo;s Ukraine&rsquo;s first female air force pilot and a national hero. But for the last 80 days, she&rsquo;s been on hunger strike to protest the conditions in the Russian prison where she is being held. This is Nadia Savchenko. She is what some — particularly those in Ukraine — would call a badass. To Russia, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/26163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Ukrainian Woman Might Starve To Death In A Russian Prison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[6506,905],"class_list":["post-26163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-nadia-savchenko","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1491363958447-facebook-social-promotion-16281-1425322346-11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}