ROSTOV-ON-DON - Ukrainian citizen Nadia Savchenko, whom Russia is preparing to try for complicity in killing Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, has been delivered to detention facility No. 4 in Shakhty, the Rostov region, lawyer Mark Feygin told Interfax on Saturday.
‘According to my sources, she is already at the detention facility, and a cell is being prepared for her there,’ Feygin said.
Interfax could not immediately obtain confirmation of this information from alternative sources.Russian Human Rights Commissioner Ella Pamfilova’s website had reported on Friday that Savchenko would be delivered to a detention facility in the Rostov region on July 25.Tatyana Diyeva, a spokesperson for the Donetsk City Court in the Rostov region, had told Interfax earlier that the court had received the criminal case materials in relation to Savchenko.
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office had reported on July 13 that it had endorsed an indictment against Savchenko and forwarded the criminal case to the Donetsk City Court in the Rostov region.
Savchenko has been held under arrest in Russia since July 2014 on charges of complicity in the killing of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in the Luhansk region. She has never admitted her guilt.
