The Ministry of foreign Affairs protested in connection with the extension until may 13, the term of arrest of Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko, accused of belonging to the deprivation of life of the Russian correspondents.

before Tuesday's Basmanny court extended the term of arrest Savchenko to 13 may, and at the same time, the protection offered to release her on bail.

"Ukraine's foreign Ministry expresses its categorical protest against accepted 10 February Basmanny district court of Moscow of the Russian Federation the decision to extend the detention of the MP of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Hopes Savchenko," said the report, published on the Internet representation of the Ukrainian Ministry of foreign Affairs.

Ukrainian pilots from last summer placed under arrest in Russia on charges of belonging to the deprivation of life 2 correspondents RTR, died during combat operations in the Donbass. The results held in October in Ukraine's parliamentary elections she was elected representative of the people of the Verkhovna Rada from the party " Batkivshchyna ", elected member of the permanent delegation of the Parliament in PACE.

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