Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine’s most famous female military officer, has languished in a Moscow prison for more than a year since Moscow-backed separatists captured her in eastern Ukraine last June and smuggled across the border to Russia shackled, her head covered by a sack. Now her captors have moved her again—and again under the cover of secrecy—to a detention facility in the southwestern Russian city of Novocherkassk, only twenty kilometers from the rebel-controlled area of eastern Ukraine.It is in the nearby city of Donetsk, (not be confused with the Ukrainian city of the same name now controlled by pro-Russian separatists), that …read more
Source: Atlantic Council