German Government will consider the possibility of sending doctors to Savchenko – RIA Novosti

BERLIN, March 11 – RIA Novosti, Tatyana Firsova The German government will consider the possibility of the request of Ukraine to send Nadezhda Savchenko accused of the Russian Federation in the case of the death of the journalists of VGTRK, a group of German doctors said on Friday. representative of the German Foreign Ministry, Martin Schaefer.

on the eve of Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andrew Miller wrote on Twitter, that on behalf of President Petro Poroshenko asked Germany to send to the Russian doctors for health survey Savchenko.

“we read last night Tweet Ukrainian ambassador, translating it into German, he was in the Ukrainian language situation is difficult … on the basis of this request, we will check what opportunities we have to provide humanitarian aid.” – said Schaefer journalists He recalled that this is not the first time that a German doctor may be able to explore Savchenko. “After 12 February last year the Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier (German Foreign Minister) appealed to President Vladimir Putin with the question of whether we can send it to (Savchenko), a group of German doctors Putin agreed it happened.” – Said Schaefer.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russian doctors regularly inspect Savchenko, she generally feels fine. According to the Ministry, the judge of the Donetsk City Court, which deals with the criminal proceedings against Savchenko, was willing to give Ukrainian doctors access to the defendant on March 9th. However, as reported in the Foreign Ministry, defiance Savchenko in the course of the same day of the trial and its offensive language in the address of the court changed the situation by making it impossible to implement such a visit. Therefore, according to the Foreign Ministry, “the judge decided before the verdict was announced on March 21 to cancel all visits to the defendant.” Also Lavrov assured that the health of the accused is not serious.

According to the investigation, an officer of the armed forces of Ukraine Savchenko June 17, 2014 was in the battalion “Aydar” in the village of Metalist area Slavyanoserbsk region Lugansk region, where she was hidden monitoring and adjustment of artillery fire on the checkpoint area Luhansk militia of civilians are on it, including three Russians – correspondents VGTRK. Two of them, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were killed. Prosecutor demands to sentence Savchenko to 23 years in prison, the lawyers and the defendant insisted on her innocence. Donetsk Court of Rostov Region appointed sentencing in the case Savchenko March 21-22.