MOSCOW – Ukrainian physicians who traveled to Russia to examine jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko have now been allowed in to see her. Ms. Savchenko’s lawyer, Mark Feigin, confirmed on Twitter that Ukrainian doctors met with her on March 14. Officials at the facility where Ms. Savchenko is being kept said they would not allow an earlier visit on March 13, because the doctors did not have the necessary paperwork from the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry. She recently ended a nearly three-month hunger strike to protest what she calls her illegal confinement by Russia. The Ukrainian doctors recommended to Ms. Savchenko that she should not resume her hunger strike. (RFE/RL, with reporting by Interfax and TASS)
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