Nadya Savchenko
| Nadiya Savchenko | |
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| Надія Савченко | |
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 People's Deputy of Ukraine
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| 8th convocation | |
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Assumed office 27 November 2014 |
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| President | Petro Poroshenko |
| Constituency | Batkivshchyna, No.1 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko 11 May 1981 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Social and Political Platform of Nadiya Savchenko (since 2017) |
| Other political affiliations |
Batkivshchyna (2014–2016) |
| Awards |
 Hero of Ukraine Order For Courage
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Ukraine
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| Service/branch |
 Ukrainian Armed Forces
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| Years of service | 1997–2014 |
| Rank | First lieutenant |
| Unit |
3rd Army Aviation Regiment, Brody, Lviv oblast (2010–2014) |
Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko (Ukrainian: Надія Вікторівна Савченко; born 11 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician and former Army aviation pilot in the Ukrainian Ground Forces. People's Deputy of Ukraine 8th convocation from 27 November 2014.
During the 2014 War in Donbass Savchenko, a first lieutenant in the Ukrainian Ground Forces, served as instructor with a volunteer infantry unit, the Aidar Battalion. In June 2014, she was captured by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine and handed over to Russia where she was accused of having directed artillery fire that killed two Russian state-television journalists at the positions of pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
She was subsequently charged and convicted of murder and illegally crossing Russian state border despite being abducted from Ukrainian territory one hour before the deaths of the journalists. One of her lawyers, Mark Feygin, said she was a prisoner-of-war and called on the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations to demand her immediate release and that of the other Ukrainian POWs lest Russia be held in violation of the Geneva Conventions. European Union ministers and their representative regarded her detention as illegal and that her trial did not respect basic human rights, including the right to fair proceedings.
In November 2014, while still imprisoned, Savchenko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, and she formally resigned from her military post. On 25 May 2016, Savchencko was exchanged in a prisoner swap for Russian GRU officers Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov captured by Ukraine.
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