Here's some more Savchenko news from our news desk:
A lawyer for Nadia Savchenko says that the Ukrainian military pilot will be moved from a Moscow jail to a civilian hospital in the Russian capital on April 28.
Lawyer Mark Feigin said on Twitter on April 27 that he had just visited Savchenko in the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center.
"They will send her to City Hospital No. 20 tomorrow," Feigin wrote.
It was not immediately clear whether the transfer would be permanent.
A spokeswoman for the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service said hours earlier that Savchenko's health had deteriorated abruptly after she refused to eat over the weekend, and that she would be transferred to a civilian hospital "if needed."
Savchenko has been jailed since July, when she says she was illegally brought into Russia after being abducted by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
She is charged with complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists who died in the conflict there, as well as illegal border crossing.
She denies guilt, says Russia has no right to try her, and maintained a hunger strike for more than 80 days over the winter.
Here's an item from our news desk on events in Kyiv:
EU leaders and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have opened a summit in Kyiv.
The EU-Ukraine summit is the first since their Association Agreement was signed last year after the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, which was followed by Moscow's takeover of Crimea and the seizure by Russian-backed separatists of territory in eastern Ukraine.
Poroshenko said ahead of the summit that he hopes EU officials will send "strong signals in support of Ukraine and its European integration."
EU President Donald Tusk told Poroshenko that along with having a "powerful enemy," Ukraine also has "a lot of friends."
Tusk said Ukraine can "count on their help but it will not be enough unless you yourself change Ukraine."
Talks are expected to include the status of the Minsk agreement, a deal signed in February for a cease-fire and steps to end the conflict that has killed more than 6,100 people in eastern Ukraine.
Leaders are also expected to address the status of economic and political reforms in Ukraine, financial assistance to Kyiv, and Poroshenko's request for European peacekeepers to help monitor the cease-fire.
(AFP, Reuters)
The latest conflict map from Ukrainian military authorities:
