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Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko ((ウクライナ語:Надія Вікторівна Савченко)) (born on May 11, 1981) is a Ukrainian politician and former pilot in the Ukrainian Ground Forces. She currently sits on the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe〔(Savchenko's profile ). Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe website.〕 in absentia due to being imprisoned in the Russian Federation for alleged crimes. 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. ==Life and military career == Nadiya Savchenko and her younger sister Vira, whose names translate as "Hope" and "Faith," respectively, were born in Kyiv. Their father was an agricultural engineer, their mother a designer and cargo manager. Her sister Vira said in an interview that she and her sister were brought up in a Ukrainian-speaking household and attending Ukrainian-language schools. At 16, Savchenko was already determined to become a pilot. She joined the Ukrainian Army, working as a radio operator with the country's railway forces before training as a paratrooper. She was then the only Ukrainian female soldier in the (2004–2008) Ukrainian peacekeeping troops in Iraq. Upon returning, she successfully petitioned the Defense Ministry for the right to attend the prestigious Air Force University in Kharkiv, which until then had been open only to men; she graduated in 2009. In 2010, she was posted to the 3rd Army Aviation Regiment in Brody, Lviv Oblast. In 2011, the Ukraine Defense Forces published a 20-minute documentary about Savchenko and her military career.〔 video.〕 She also featured in a United Nations Development Program as part of a drive to promote equality in the Ukrainian military. In 2014, she enrolled as a volunteer to fight in the Aidar Battalion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nadiya Savchenko」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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