KIEV, Ukraine—About 2,000 people rallied on Independence Square in Kiev on Sunday to demand that Russia release Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, with hundreds then marching to the Russian Embassy to vent their anger.
Savchenko was captured in June 2014 while fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. She is now on trial in Russia, accused of acting as a spotter who called in coordinates for a mortar attack that killed two Russian journalists and several other civilians.
After Sunday’s rally, several hundred protesters reached the Russian Embassy, where they chanted “Shame on Russia” and “Freedom to Savchenko,” embassy spokesman Oleg Grishin told the Interfax news agency. Some of the protesters pelted the building with eggs, he said.
