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Savchenko's Notes Prove Involvement in Russian Journalists' Killing

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The notes of Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko, accused of abetting in the murder of Russian journalists, verify her guilt, a Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said Friday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Savchenko has been in pre-trial detention in Russia since last summer, as a suspected accomplice in the killing of two Russian journalists during the early stages of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

"The investigation has irrefutable evidence including Savchenko's handwritten notes, proving her involvement in the adjustment of fire, data from ballistic expertise of shards from the bodies of the deceased, and photo and video materials of the location of the journalists' deaths… as well as data received from satellites."

Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda (Nadia) Savchenko looks out from a defendant's cage during a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow February 10, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Russian investigative officers claimed that she had been a fire spotter during a mortar attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk on June 17. Two Russian journalists, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, were fatally wounded in the attack.

Savchenko is currently in custody in Voronezh, a Russian city situated some 190 miles away from the border with Ukraine.

While already held in detention in Russia, Savchenko resigned from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in November 2014 after being elected a member of the Ukrainian parliament a month earlier.

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