Nadija Sawtschenko
Date of Birth: 11.05.1981
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Kyiv. After graduating from school, she obtained the qualification of a fashion designer and studied for a year at the journalism faculty of the 'Ukraine' university. In 2009, she graduated from the Kharkiv University of Air Force. As a navigator, she underwent training on a Su-24 class jet but was retrained onto another aircraft at the end of her training - the Mi-24 helicopter. After graduating from university, she served as a navigator-operator of the Mi-24 in the 3rd separate regiment of the Army Air Forces of Ukraine in the city of Brody. She has 170 flight hours and completed 45 parachute jumps.
Career. She joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces and began her service in the railway troops as a paratrooper. She then signed a contract for service in the 95th Airborne Brigade in Zhytomyr when the first contract battalion was formed.
In 2004-2005, she participated as part of the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent in the mission in Iraq, where she served for six months as a shooter in the 3rd company of the 72nd separate mechanized battalion.
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During the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, she participated as a volunteer in the fighting in the Aidar battalion.
On June 18, 2014, she was captured by the terrorists of the Zarya battalion. On June 19, a video of her interrogation was published online, where she was handcuffed to a post.
On July 8, it became known that Nadija Sawtschenko was in solitary confinement in the investigation prison of Voronezh in police custody. According to Sawtschenko, the LNR separatists took her to Luhansk and then to Krasnyi Luch, after which they transported her to Boguchar in the Voronezh region, Russia. Sawtschenko was falsely accused of murdering Russian journalists.
On July 10, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine appealed to the Council of Europe requesting recognition of Ukrainian soldier Nadija Sawtschenko as a hostage of Russia and demanding her extradition. On July 15, the European Court of Human Rights initiated proceedings against Sawtschenko.
On July 16, the consul of Ukraine in the Russian Federation, Gennadiy Breskalenko, met with Sawtschenko after nine refusals from the Russian side. Sawtschenko's lawyers acted as defenders in the Russian court Mark Feigin, who was a defender in the Pussy Riot trial.
On September 14, 2014, the Fatherland party unanimously accepted Sawtschenko and nominated her as a deputy for the Verkhovna Rada, where she received the first place in the election list.
On October 10, 2014, Sawtschenko was officially recognized as a political prisoner by the Memorial society.
On October 27, lawyer Mark Feygin reported that the court had extended Sawtschenko's detention until February 2015.
On November 7, Sawtschenko's lawyer informed that she had submitted a resignation request from the Ukrainian armed forces after becoming a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
On November 19, 2014, the Central Election Commission registered Sawtschenko as a people's deputy, and on November 25, she received the certificate of a people's deputy of Ukraine.
On March 22, 2016, the District Court of the city of Donetsk in the Rostov region (RF) sentenced Sawtschenko to 22 years in a general regime colony and a fine of 30,000 rubles. The court found the Ukrainian guilty of complicity in the murder of VGTRK television journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin.
On May 25, 2016, the exchange of Nadija Sawtschenko for Russian soldiers Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev convicted in Ukraine took place, and on the same day, Sawtschenko was brought to Ukraine.
On December 15, 2016, Sawtschenko was excluded from the Fatherland party faction, for which she had applied in parliament, as 'the principles and political convictions of Nadija Sawtschenko and the Fatherland do not coincide'. This preceded Sawtschenko's trip to Minsk, where she held talks with the leaders of Donetsk and Luhansk terrorists.
In the early parliamentary elections of 2019, she ran in the 51st constituency (Donetsk region) and received votes. According to the election results, she lost in the district, 8 voters voted for her.
Criminal case. On March 15, 2018, Attorney General Yuriy Lutsenko stated that Sawtschenko allegedly planned to carry out an attack on the Parliament building on that day, the head of the GPU submitted a petition to parliament for the punishment of the deputy, his arrest and detention. In the petition text, the GPU claims that Sawtschenko conspired with the head of the Prisoner Release Center, officer Volodymyr Ruban, and the leaders of the terrorist organizations DNR and LNR Alexander Zacharchenko and Alexand Tymofeevich to carry out a series of attacks and attempts in Ukraine against government representatives with the aim of violently overthrowing the constitutional order in Ukraine.
On March 15, 2018, the Rada excluded Sawtschenko.