2 Russians swapped for Savchenko land in Moscow
An aircraft with Russian citizens Evgeny Erofeev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov, who were swapped for Ukraine’s Nadezhda Savchenko, has landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport.
President Putin signed a decree pardoning Nadezhda Savchenko on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that the Russian leader signed the document simultaneously with the arrival of Erofeev and Aleksandrov in Moscow.
Meanwhile, Savchenko has already been delivered to Kiev on a Ukrainian plane, Peskov said.
In March, a Russian court found Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty of murdering Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Lugansk, in eastern Ukraine, and of illegally crossing the Russian border. According to prosecutors, she relayed the coordinates of a checkpoint where the two reporters were subsequently killed by Ukrainian Aidar Battalion artillery fire near the town of Metalist in June 2014. The attack also resulted in the deaths of Ukrainian civilians. Afterwards, Savchenko illegally crossed the border into Russia.
Russian citizens Evgeny Erofeev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov were sentenced in Ukraine in April to 14 years in prison after a district court in Kiev found them guilty of terrorist activities.
Both Erofeev and Aleksandrov denied the crimes they are accused of.
INC News, 25/05/2016 - source: ©RTNews
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