Savchenko denies guilt, will continue hunger strike

Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, accused of being an accessory to the murder of Russian journalists, has said she would continue her hunger strike.

"I will continue the hunger strike, today is day 60. I will continue the hunger strike, until I'm back in Ukraine, from where I was kidnapped, or I die in Russia," Savchenko said at the hearing in Basmanny court on Tuesday.

She vehemently denies all the accusations made against her. "This… circus must be finished. I don't owe anything to the Russian people, and I'll deal with what I owe to the Ukrainian [people] when I come back," she said.

Savchenko suggested that an "investigatory experiment" be conducted that will prove her innocence. "Stand in the spot I was in, and see that I couldn't have seen Russian journalists form there," she said.

In addition, Savchenko said that she still hadn't received her statement on her being a refugee, which she, according to the investigators, wrote after crossing the border. "I'd like to see the paper that I supposedly wrote. It's interesting how you will falsify it, as well as my handwriting," she said.

"The investigators weren't working, I've been sitting here for eight months, and they haven't done anything but said they were interrogating 17,000 witnesses," she said.

Savchenko's mother was escorted from the court during the hearing, after she tried to talk to her daughter.

The defendant was outraged by this, which led to her second and, as the judges put it, "last warning for disrespecting the court."