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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (ARCHIVE)

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In New TV Spots, Ukraine Accuses Russia Of 'Misappropriating' Victory Day

With Russia pushing hard to monopolize the remembrance of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, activists in Ukraine have decided to push back.

The Information Resistance group, with assistance from the Ukrainian military and the National Military History Museum, has produced two emotionally charged public-service advertisements that emphasize Ukraine's tremendous sacrifices and contributions to victory in 1945.

The Kremlin considers the current government of Ukraine to be fascists that revere controversial World War II-era Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, who Moscow views as a Nazi collaborator.

"The dialogues [in the advertisements] show better than any political rhetoric the true feelings of the 'modern Banderites,' as Russian propaganda calls us, regarding the memory of our grandfathers who fought and stopped fascism," Ukrainian lawmaker and Information Resistance activist Dmytro Tymchuk told Euromaidan Press.

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Savchenko moved to civilian hospital:

Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko has been transferred from a jail hospital to a civilian clinic in Moscow.

Russian Federal Penitentiary Service spokeswoman Kristina Belousova said on April 28 that Savchenko was moved to a clinic in the capital because of her deteriorating health, but did not say whether her move to a civilian hospital was permanent.

Savchenko had previously maintained a hunger strike for more than 80 days over the winter.

Savchenko's lawyer, Mark Feigin, said on April 27 that the military pilot had resumed the hunger strike over the weekend, and was in bad health.

Belousova on April 28 said that Savchenko stopped her hunger strike.

Savchenko has been in pretrial detention in Russia since July, when she says she was illegally brought into the country after being abducted by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

She is charged with complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists who died in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, as well as illegal border crossing. (TASS, RIA Novosti)

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LATEST: Russia's penitentiary service says Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko has been transferred from a Moscow jail to a civilian hospital. (TASS, RIA Novosti, Interfax)

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