Thread: "Russophobia" and "Russophilia" :)

Has Russia KIDNAPPED a Ukrainian helicopter pilot and brought her to Russia to face trial?
Nadezhda Savchenko, I think her name was.

I think it's really shocking and I am totally against that sort of behaviour by any country, including Russia. What's the truth about this?

Apparently she was operating the helicopter that fired the shot that killed two Russian journalists. Obviously that was wrong, but she is a soldier following orders in a civil war. Additionally: she hardly fired the shots if she was busy operating the helicopter.

Russia cannot blame HER for killing these journalists; the ones guilty are in Kiev, Washington and Brussels.

If this is true, it's really disappointing. If she was smuggled into Russia by the separatists, RU ought to take the high road and send her home.

Originally Posted by Hanna

If this is true, it's really disappointing. If she was smuggled into Russia by the separatists, RU ought to take the high road and send her home.

The Ukrainian version: she got smuggled by the separatists
The Russian version: she got arrested while being on Russian land and posing herself as a refugee.

BTW: nobody's blaming her for killings just yet, the accusations are for supporting and planning the killings. Allegedly she was a pilot that corrected fire of Ukrainian artillery that killed journalists. That's possible participation in a forethought murder, if proven of course.

Originally Posted by hddscan

The Ukrainian version: she got smuggled by the separatists
The Russian version: she got arrested while being on Russian land and posing herself as a refugee.

I'm not willing yet to drag myself into discussing what she was really doing while on the chopper, but just a quick look at this line makes me feel real inconsistency in this whole story. I mean, why would any Ukrainian chopper pilot in a situation like this ever go to Russia and pose themselves as a refugee?!!!

Comment deleted by me. It was too off-topic.
Edit again:
K. I'll replace it with this. How could anybody get phobic about this?

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