WARSAW (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin demanding the release of jailed Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko, captured by separatists last year, Poroshenko said on Tuesday.
"I sent a letter to Putin a day before yesterday. Also one of the key elements of this letter was not only a ceasefire, ... but also a release of Nadia Savchenko," Poroshenko told Polish broadcaster TVN Biznes i Swiat.
Savchenko, 33, was captured by separatists in eastern Ukraine last June and sent to Russia where she had been held in a psychiatric clinic before being transferred to a prison. On Monday her lawyer said she is on a hunger strike and may die in detention.