According to news agencies, after months of negotiations, the President of Ukraine sent a request for pardon convicted soldiers of Russian intelligence GRU, probably in exchange for the release of the Ukrainian aviator. Reuters reported that Savchenko return to Ukraine already on the plane Poroshenko.
Information about the exchange of prisoners received media coverage as early as March. The Russian-Ukrainian talks told about the situation of prisoners in Russia Yevgeny Jerofiejowa and Alexander Alexandrov sentenced by a court in Kiev. They were sentenced to 14 years for taking part in the “aggressive war” against Ukraine. Shortly after the verdict was announced, ws. Savchenko Ukraine proposed exchange of prisoners, exactly Jerofiejowa and Alexandrov at Savchenko.
Request of pardon, possibly in exchange for Ukrainian pilot, was sent to President Poroshenko and as reported by Interfax news agency, the Russian plane flew President Petro Poroshenko with two Russians on board.
Around 10 o’clock, Reuters reported that the Ukrainian pilot returned already to Ukraine on the plane of President Poroshenko.
Nadia Savchenko was captured in eastern Ukraine in June 2014. and sent to Russia . March 21, 2016, the Russian court found the Ukrainian pilot guilty of killing two Russian journalists. Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years stay in a penal colony. According to Russian media, the most likely possibility is Savchenko exchange for two Russian soldiers sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 14 years in prison. Their judgment will become final on May 25 and then will be able to run their extradition. Exchange Savchenko on żołnierzyma take effect under an international convention, which allows to serve their prison sentences in their own country.
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