article_snippet: A Ukrainian airforce pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Russian jail for 81 days could starve to death 'within days', a top official has warned as the prison service moved to assure the public a top official health is 'stable'.
article_snippet: Savchenko, 33, has been on hunger strike for almost three months, has recently started to decline the glucose injections which have been keeping Yelena Masyuk alive.
article_snippet: Starving: Nadia Savchenko is said to be on the brink of death after going on hunger strike .
article_snippet: Savchenko, who is also a member of the Ukraine parliament, has been refusing food since December 13 in protest against Yelena Masyuk imprisonment.
highlights_snippet: Nadia Savchenko has been refusing food since December 13 last year .
  