Nadezhda Savchenko, who recently released Ukrainian detention center, compared the experience of imprisonment in her own country with the place of detention in the territory of the Russian Federation.
“I may surprise you – there was more honor in the Russian prison,” she said.
According to Savchenko, she was treated with respect because of the citizenship of Ukraine, since for the employees of Russian institutions she “was something incomprehensible.”
She mainly noted the similarities between prisons in terms of life and working methods. The deputy noted that both Ukraine and Russia still retained the Soviet system in penitentiary institutions.
Recall that in March 2016 Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison for involvement in the murder of journalists in the Donbass. A Russian court admitted that she had adjusted the artillery fire on the L/DPR servicemen with whom the crew of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company company was at that time.
Two months after the verdict was passed, the President of Russia pardoned Nadezhda Savchenko and she came back to Ukraine. But in her native country, a “surprise” awaited her. After the start of Savchenko’s political career and the departure from Yulia Tymoshenko, she became a non-fractional deputy. In March 2018, she was deprived of parliamentary immunity and arrested. Savchenko was charged with the preparation of terrorist attacks in Kiev. On the eve of the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine, she was released from the detention center.