The court on Wednesday refused to stop the case of the Ukrainian pilot Hopes Savchenko on the episode of the attempted murder of the inhabitant of the Luhansk region, reports journalist Last news from the hall of the court of Donetsk of the Rostov region.

The defense has based its Petition that Ella of Burica is a citizen of Ukraine and must protect their rights in the home country.

"Application for protection is rejected," announced the judge.

before the Defense sought to exclude all six victims in the case who are residents of Ukraine, but the Court denied this.

the meeting continues. As told Last news source familiar with the situation, the Court, among other things, may question one of the prosecution witnesses - militiamen, who took Savchenko captured during hostilities in Lugansk region.

review of the investigation, Savchenko, being the officer military power of Ukraine, on June 17, 2014 near the village Metalist Luhansk region was watching and changing the artillery fire on the area of the roadblock militias self-proclaimed LNR, where, and among them were the Russian correspondents VGTRK. In the result of attack two Russian citizens were killed.

in addition, according to the investigation, not later than 23 June 2014, Savchenko illegally crossed the border of Ukraine and Russia in the area of the checkpoint " Donetsk-Northern ", after which it was mated.

Itself Savchenko all fundamentally rejects the charges and informs that she was kidnapped in Ukraine and forcibly transported to the Russian Federation. In her defense many times expressed by the majority of Ukrainian politicians, as well as among them the head Petro Poroshenko.

sections: Politics