Kyiv has gained the Russian authorities' permission that enables a Ukrainian medical team to visit Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, who is on 'dry' hunger strike, at the detention facility, parliament member Iryna Heraschenko (Petro Poroshenko Bloc) has said.

"A group of Ukrainian physicians will leave for meeting with Nadia Savchenko within hours; they will examine her and provide assistance. Ukrainian diplomats have finally gained a promise from the Russian authorities that our doctors will visit Nadia on March 9," Heraschenko wrote on Facebook on Tuesday morning.

According to Russian detectives, Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Nadia Savchenko was staying at the location of the Aidar battalion near the town of Metalist in the Slovyanoserbsk district of the Luhansk region on June 17, 2014. Now she is accused of conducting secret observation and adjustment of artillery fire on a Luhansk militants roadblock where civilians, including three journalists from Russia's VGTRK broadcaster, were present. The gunfire killed two journalists – Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin. Savchenko denied all charges.

She has been held in custody in Russia since July 2014. Savchenko said at a meeting of the Donetsk City Court on December 17, 2015, that she would be on a hunger strike until the end of the proceeding.

She also announced a 'dry' hunger strike and refused to drink water on Friday, March 4.