Editor’s Note: The following is an English-language translation of

imprisoned Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko’s defiant address she gave on March

2, following Russia’s prosecutors demands for a 23-year prison sentence.

I will talk in Russian now so we won’t waste time on an interpreter and my money… as I found out. However, human rights suggest the interpreters should be provided for free. First of all, I want to apologize to the audience for my emotional behavior. In fact, it is very hard to listen to the same lies for six months, and then again listen to it repeatedly throughout the day. Therefore, I can’t react to the prosecutor’s address in a different way.