Ukrainian Pilot Goes on Trial in Russia

A Ukraine helicopter pilot accused in the deaths of two Russian journalists last year in war-ravaged eastern Ukraine has formally denied charges from Russian prosecutors, calling the case against her "a piece of rubbish." Pilot Nadiya Savchenko spoke Tuesday from a glass cage inside a courtroom in southwestern Russia, at the opening of her high-profile trial. "I never in my life shot at unarmed people," she said. "I am a soldier, not a murderer. It's all lies,...

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