Rev. Dr. Bohdan Prach and faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University wrote an open letter to the Rectors and academic communities of the Catholic Universities, Members of the European Federation of Catholic Universities – FUCE - urging them to speak up in defence of the Ukrainian PoW Nadia Savchenko.
Rev. Dr. Bohdan Prach and faculty of the Ukrainian Catholic University wrote an open letter to the Rectors and academic communities of the Catholic Universities, Members of the European Federation of Catholic Universities – FUCE - urging them to speak up in defence of the Ukrainian PoW Nadia Savchenko.
"With this letter, I invite you to break through the walls of Putin’s authoritarian propaganda and lies by manifesting your support of Nadia Savchenko, 33, a Ukrainian military pilot who served in Iraq as a peacemaker and volunteered for military service to defend her country...I suggest and encourage you to use your academic contacts and partnerships with Russian universities and with individual representatives of the Russian academic community to draw their attention to the case of Nadia Savchenko", writes Rev. Prakh in his letter.
On June 17, 2014 Nadia was kidnapped by the terrorists and was eventually transported to Russia and put in a detention facility there. The Russian authorities claim that Nadia Savchenko was detained on Russian territory. She is formally charged with “aiding in the killing of two or more persons”. She declared hunger strike in December. Today is 82nd day of her protest.