Prison administration stops passing mail to Ukrainian pilot Savchenko - lawyer

15:40, 29.08.2015 1 min read

Ukrainian aviator Nadia Savchenko, who has been charged in a criminal case related to the killing of Russian journalists in Luhansk region in 2014 and who is being held at a pretrial detention facility in Novocherkassk, Rostov region, has stopped receiving mail, lawyer Mark Feigin said.

"They stopped passing mail to Nadia in the Novocherkassk prison. I am asking friends to send complaints to the administration," Feigin said on Twitter on Saturday.

Media had reported earlier that Savchenko might be swapped for Russian citizens Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov, who are being held in Ukraine.

A sentence could be passed on the Ukrainian pilot after September 29 – after a visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to New York (the United States).