KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Latest on Ukrainian pilot Nadezda Savchenko (all times local):
3:35 p.m.
Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko has returned to Kiev after nearly two years of being imprisoned in Russia.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman confirmed that the plane carrying Savchenko from Rostov-on-Don had landed Wednesday at Kiev’s Borispol Airport.
Savchenko was swapped for two Russian servicemen imprisoned in Ukraine, Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev. Russian state television showed them arriving at a Moscow airport on Wednesday.
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3:30 p.m.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says in televised comments that he has decided to pardon Ukrainian pilot Nadezda Savchenko, who …read more
Source: KXAN
