Ukrainian MP and former prisoner of war Nadezhda Savchenko has arrived in Moscow’s High Court to attend the hearing of Ukrainian prisoners Nikolay Karpiuk and Stanislav Klikh.
Savchenko’s lawyer Ilya Novikov said there was “no other point to this trip apart from supporting Klikh and Karpiuk.”
“I know myself how important it is when you are in court sitting in a cage and Ukrainians are present. When there is someone to shout 'Glory to Ukraine!' and you hear the answer 'Glory to the heroes!' Then you understand that your people have not abandoned you and that the fight continues; you get some strength from it,” Savchenko wrote on Facebook.
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