Savchenko now 25 days into hunger strike

Ukrainian pilot and Verkhovna Rada MP Nadia Savchenko, who is being detained in Russia, is continuing her hunger strike, one of her lawyers Nikolai Polozov said on Wednesday.

"Today is the 25th day of a hunger strike of MP, PACE delegate, prisoner of war, and political prisoner Nadia Savchenko," Polozov said, according to Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda.

"Why can’t the defenders of the Russian world let the Christian Nadia Savchenko go home for Christmas? Why can’t the Russian Orthodox Church stand up for the Christian Savchenko on the eve of the Orthodox Christmas?" Mark Feygin, Savchenko’s lawyer, wrote on his Twitter page earlier, UNIAN reports.