MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - The heath condition of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, held in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, is not causing any concern among doctors today, Anatoly Rudy, first deputy director of Russia's Federal Penitentiary Institutions Service (FSIN), has said.
"So far, no changes have happened. She has been engaged in an on-and-off hunger strike," Rudy told reporters in Moscow, when answering a question from Interfax.
"If we see that the state of her health is about to change, we will immediately transfer her to a civilian hospital, where she will receive additional medical treatment," he added.
It was reported on Monday that Savchenko said in a letter to Ukrainians and her friends from Russia that she would continue her hunger strike until she was released from the remand center and placed under house arrest at the Ukrainian Consulate in Russia at the very least. She also demanded that a ban stopping her from attending a court session on March 26 due to her health condition be lifted.
A photo of Savchenko's letter was posted on the Twitter account of Ukraine's Batkivshchyna party.
She went on a hunger strike on December 12, 2014 in protest against her arrest. On March 5, 2015, she agreed to consume broth after her condition deteriorated.