serviceyears branch native_name_lang birth_place allegiance unit party awards office native_name birth_date term_start rank image article_title birth_name
1997 -- 2014 25px ukrainian armed forces uk kiev , ukrainian ssr , soviet union ukraine ukraine 3rd -lrb- 2010-2014 -rrb- army aviation regiment , brody , lviv oblast batkivshchyna 23px people 's deputy of ukraine Надія Вікторівна Савченко 11 may 1981 27 november 2014 first lieutenant nadiya savchenko.jpg nadiya savchenko
 nadiya viktorivna savchenko
nadiya savchenko

nadiya viktorivna savchenko -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born on may 11 , 1981 -rrb- is a ukrainian politician and former pilot in the ukrainian ground forces .
she currently sits on the verkhovna rada -lrb- the ukrainian parliament -rrb- in absentia due to being imprisoned in russia .
during the 2014 war in donbass , savchenko , a first lieutenant in the ukrainian ground forces , was captured by pro-russian rebels in eastern ukraine and handed over to russia , where she was charged with the killing of two russian journalists .
in november 2014 , while still imprisoned , savchenko was elected to the verkhovna rada in the 2014 ukrainian parliamentary election , and she formally resigned from her military post .
her lawyer , mark feygin , says she is a prisoner-of-war and has called on the international committee of the red cross and the united nations to demand her immediate release and that of the other ukrainian pows lest russia be held in violation of the geneva conventions .
savchenko was one of ukraine 's first women to train as an air-force pilot , and is the only female aviator to pilot the sukhoi su-24 bomber and the mil mi-24 helicopter .
