KIEV: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, freed by Russia in a prisoner exchange on Wednesday, has been condemned by Moscow as a murderer but was rapturously received as a national hero back home.
The 35-year-old army helicopter navigator was sentenced to 22 years in March over the killing of two Russian journalists in the separatist conflict in east Ukraine.
After President Vladimir Putin pardoned her, citing the wishes of the journalists’ relatives, she was secretly flown in to Kiev on a government plane.
The move came as part of a swap with two alleged Russian soldiers convicted of fighting alongside separatists in the …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
