Ukrainian pilot imprisoned in Moscow ceases hunger strike on the brink

Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian pilot widely alleged to be illegally imprisoned in Russia, decided on March 5 that she ceased her hunger strike, with doctors warning that she would approach the point of no return on between March 6 and 8. “I am learning to change my tactics,” she wrote in a letter made public by her lawyer. “Yes, I’m physically wretched, but not so much as to die already.  So I’ll eat soup for a certain time in order to live to fly, and to die healthily.”

Zenon Zawada: By taking her hunger strike to the brink of death, Savchenko was able to draw the world’s attention to not only her illegal imprisonment, but the Russian government’s crimes in the war in Ukraine. Her task now is to make sure that her name doesn’t fall off the radar screen of foreign media and governments.