KIEV, Ukraine, May 27 (UPI) -- Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian military pilot recently released from Russian captivity, said she would be prepared to serve as president if elected.
Savchenko, 35, is a member of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, or parliament, in addition to her military career and representation of Ukraine on the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly. She was convicted of murder by a Russian court for her involvement in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, the court saying she called their coordinates in to a Ukrainian army battalion.