Ukrainian Air Force pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured and held in Russia for two years, and who was recently convicted in a show trial for the murder of two Russian war correspondents, was granted amnesty by Vladimir Putin and returned to Kyiv today. The release was done in secrecy and became public only after President Petro Poroshenko’s jet, with Savchenko on board, landed in Kyiv. Rumors had circulated that Poroshenko’s jet had landed in Rostov-on-Don earlier in the day.In exchange, two agents from Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), captured in Eastern Ukraine by Ukrainian forces in May 2015 and …read more
Source: The American Interest
