Mark Feygin, a lawyer for Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, who is convicted in Russia, said his client has recovered from her hunger strike and is virtually back to her normal food regimen.

"She feels fine. It can be said that she has recovered from her hunger strike. She has lost a little weight, but her weight is normal. She is not cradling for warmth anymore, like she did when she was on a dry hunger strike, she had a down coat. It was warm in Rostov today and she was dressed very lightly. Generally, it seemed to me that everything is fine. She is now virtually back [to her normal food regimen]," Feygin said on 112 Ukraine television after visiting Savchenko at her detention facility on Monday.

The lawyer said his client "eats and drinks, she just doesn't take in solid food, she eats baby food in jars to get her digestion right." "I think she will be eating normally in the coming week, maybe earlier, she will feel fine," Feygin said.

On March 22, 2016, the Donetsk District Court of the Rostov region found Ukrainian servicewoman Nadia Savchenko guilty of involvement in the killing of Russian journalists Igor Korneliuk and Anton Voloshin by a group of people by a previous concert on hatred and enmity motives, and sentenced her to 22 years in a penal colony. The court also found her guilty of attempted murder and illegally crossing the Russian border.

The sentence took effect on April 5. The next day, Savchenko began a dry hunger strike, demanding her immediate return to her homeland.

Savchenko decided to stop her hunger strike after a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko a week ago.