Here's a Savchenko update from our news desk:
A Russian lawmaker says a Ukrainian military pilot held in Russia for alleged involvement in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine cannot be released simply because she is a Ukrainian lawmaker in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Aleksei Pushkov told journalists on January 26 that demands to release Nadia Savchenko "have no legal grounds" because she is accused of a crime committed before she was elected to Ukraine's parliament.
PACE President Anne Brasseur appealed to Russian State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin last week to help free Savchenko, whose health has severely deteriorated after 46 days of a hunger strike.
But Naryshkin said Savchenko's fate is up to the Russian courts.
Savchenko, who was captured by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine last summer and transferred to Russia, says Moscow has no right to detain her.
Savchenko won a seat in Ukraine's parliament in October and was included in the Ukrainian PACE delegation.
(TASS, Interfax)
This is obviously a very pro-Ukrainian video and its efforts to debunk some Russian myths about Crimea might not be to everyone's taste, but it covers a lot of historical bases:
Another update from our news desk:
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has added a prominent Russian actor to a wanted list for firing a machine gun towards Ukrainian armed forces in eastern Ukraine in October.
The ministry's website said on January 27 that Mikhail Porechenkov is suspected of terrorism or a threat to implement a terrorist act and is avoiding Ukrainian investigators.
The ministry said an arrest warrant has been issued for Porechenkov.
In October, Porechenkov was filmed standing with pro-Russian separatists and firing a machine gun near the Donetsk airport while wearing patches that identified him as a member of the press.
On October 31, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry filed criminal charges against Porechenkov after the footage went viral on the Internet.
Porechenkov said it was a staged scene, that he was firing blanks, and that the only bullet-resistant vest and helmet he could find were labelled "press."
(UNIAN, Interfax)