DPR soldier. Archive photoKHERSON, May 3.A former member of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Aidar battalion, Nadezhda Savchenko, in 2014, during a punitive operation in the Donbass, did not allow a civilian specialist to drive to the Lugansk thermal power plant, after which the Aidar people shot this person, and took his car, the ex-militant told RIA Novosti National Battalion Vitaly Bashtannik. He was detained and testifies to the Russian security forces. According to Bashtannik, he once witnessed how «Savchenko Nadezhda stopped the Volga». A civilian who was sitting in the car said that he was a specialist in combined heat and power plants and was going to the Luhansk TPP.
"She called someone, said: "Do not let him through, he has nothing to do there".He turns around, goes towards Luhansk… As a result, he was shot, the car was taken away", — said the Bashtannik.
Savchenko fought in the Donbass in 2014 as part of the Aidar national battalion. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in June 2014, during military operations in the Lugansk region, Savchenko, having learned the coordinates of the location of a group of Russian journalists from the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and other civilians near Luhansk, handed them over to Ukrainian armed formations. Artillery shelling was carried out along these coordinates, as a result of which employees of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin were killed. After that, Savchenko crossed the Russian border under the guise of a refugee without documents and was detained while checking documents. Savchenko was convicted in the Russian Federation for 22 years for involvement in the murder of journalists in the Donbass. At the end of May 2016, Savchenko was pardoned by the President of the Russian Federation, after which she returned to Ukraine. She was a member of the Verkhovna Rada. In 2018, the Security Service of Ukraine arrested Savchenko on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks in the center of Kyiv, and in 2019 she was released from custody. militant: a doctor from «Aidar» in 2014 killed the wounded in the Donbass