Pilot Savchenko in Moscow detention facility - lawyer

Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko is in Moscow's Detention Facility 6, her lawyer Nikolai Polozov said.

"We have found Nadia Savchenko! She is in Detention Facility 6 in Pechatniki. Our colleague Ilya Novikov, a lawyer, is with her," Polozov said on Twitter on Thursday.

Savchenko, 31, fought in eastern Ukraine in the ranks of the Aidar volunteer battalion and in June was taken prisoner by Russian-sponsored insurgents near the town of Schastia in Luhansk region.

She resurfaced on July 8 - reports said she was being held in a detention center in Voronezh.

The Russian Investigative Committee claims that she crossed the border into Russia without any identification papers and masquerading as a Ukrainian refugee, and that officials who stopped her in a Russian village for an identity inspection identified her as a suspect in the killing of Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, reporters for Russian radio and television company VGTRK.

Ukraine's consul ultimately met with Savchenko after a long period during which she was denied any visits from defense lawyers and the consul. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the pilot confirmed during the conversation with the consul that she had been transferred to Russia illegally and forcibly (handcuffed and blindfolded).

Her Russian defense lawyer Mark Feygin said Savchenko did not take direct part in the hostilities in Donbas.

On September 24, Feygin said that their client had been taken from Voronezh prison, but her whereabouts were unknown.

Investigative Committee official Vladimir Markin earlier told Interfax Savchenko has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation as part of the criminal case involving the killing of two Russian journalists.