On Wednesday Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich visited the embassy of Ukraine in Minsk to support Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian pilot, who is being kept in Russian prison.
The writer asked to hand over a letter and books to the pilot.
Alexievich, who once called Savchenko ‘a Ukrainian Jeanne d’Arc’, says that she has read book ‘Strong Name Nadiya’ which Savchenko wrote in jail [‘Nadiya’ is Ukrainian for ‘hope’ – Belsat].
Russia accuses Nadiya Savchenko of murdering two TV journalists, who were killed during the fighting in Donbas, and illegal border crossing. The pilot denies any wrongdoing and says that she was kidnapped on the territory of Ukraine and taken to Russia by force.
