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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 52 

Calling for the release of Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who 

was captured by Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine and has been held 

illegally in a Russian prison since July 2014. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 28, 2015 

Mr. CARDIN (for himself and Mr. WICKER) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 

RESOLUTION 

Calling for the release of Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya 

Savchenko, who was captured by Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine and has been held illegally in a Russian 

prison since July 2014. 

Whereas Nadiya Savchenko is the first-ever female fighter 

pilot in Ukraine’s Armed Forces and is an Iraqi war veteran; 

Whereas, in the ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine, Nadiya 

Savchenko volunteered her services to the Ukrainian 

Aidar battalion; 

Whereas Nadiya Savchenko was elected in absentia from the 

Batkivshchyna Party to Ukraine’s Parliament in October 

2014, and appointed to the Parliament Assembly of the 


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Council of Europe (PACE) as a representative from 

Ukraine; 

Whereas, as a member of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 

Lieutenant Nadiya Savchenko was conducting operations 

in eastern Ukraine against pro-Russian forces in the 

summer of 2014 when she was captured and taken into 

captivity; 

Whereas, during her mission in Eastern Ukraine, she was 

captured by the Donbas People’s Militia, detained on 

Ukrainian territory, deprived of rights to due process, 

and illegally transferred to the Russian Federation to 

stand trial on unsubstantiated charges of terrorism; 

Whereas, since July 2014, Nadiya Savchenko has endured involuntary psychiatric evaluations and solitary confinement; 

Whereas Nadiya Savchenko is currently entering her sixth 

week of a hunger strike as a symbol of her protest; 

Whereas Nadiya Savchenko is denied access to urgently needed medical attention and access to legal counsel; 

Whereas the Minsk Protocol of September 2014, signed by 

Ukraine and the Russian Federation, calls for the ‘‘immediate release of all hostages and illegally held persons’’; 

Whereas appeals have been made to the United Nations 

Human Rights Council and the International Red Cross 

to secure Nadiya Savchenko’s release; 

Whereas the international community, including representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of 

Europe (PACE) and of the United States, have urged 

her immediate release; 


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Whereas, on January 26, 2015, the opening day of the Parliamentary Assembly, the global community embarks on 

a public campaign to bring attention to the plight of 

Nadiya Savchenko and demand her immediate release; 

and 

Whereas the Government and people of the United States express concern about the deteriorating health of detained 

pilot Nadiya Savchenko and her continued illegal imprisonment: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) condemns the Government of the Russian 

3 Federation for its illegal imprisonment of Nadiya 

4 Savchenko; 

5 (2) calls on the Government of the Russian 

6 Federation to immediately release Nadiya 

7 Savchenko; 

8 (3) calls on the United States, its European al9 lies, and the international community to aggressively 

10 support efforts to release Nadiya Savchenko and 

11 other illegally detained persons; and 

12 (4) expresses solidarity with the Ukrainian peo13 ple. 

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