Moscow poised to hand over prisoner Savchenko to Ukraine: reports

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Moscow poised to hand over prisoner Savchenko to Ukraine: reports


Reports from both Ukraine and Russia say that kidnapped Ukrainian POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko is on a plane home to Kyiv. She is being swapped for two Russian GRU (Spetznaz) soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine. A flight believed to be carrying Russian soldiers Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov has landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport. President Petro Poroshenko is scheduled to talk to the Ukrainian people shortly.

Freedom! POW Lt. Savchenko has been held in Russian captivity for two years

 

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Moscow poised to hand over prisoner Savchenko to Ukraine: reports


Reports from both Ukraine and Russia say that kidnapped Ukrainian POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko is on a plane home to Kyiv. She is being swapped for two Russian GRU (Spetznaz) soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine. A flight believed to be carrying Russian soldiers Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov has landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport. President Petro Poroshenko is scheduled to talk to the Ukrainian people shortly.

Freedom! POW Lt. Savchenko has been held in Russian captivity for two years

That would be nice of them.

 

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NYT - Ukrainian Pilot, Nadiya Savchenko, Is Exchanged for 2 Russian Prisoners

Jailed Ukraine pilot Nadia Savchenko heads home after prisoner swap with Russia

Swapped Russian GRU officers on arrival at Vnukovo airport in Moscow
Met only by their wives and 2 journalists. No government or military officials even bothered







US State Department - Return of Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine

In contrast - Nadiya at Boryspil airport in Kyiv







Ukraine's first female combat pilot freed in prisoner exchange with Russia

Lt. Nadezhda Savchenko receives the Gold Star of the Hero of Ukraine







Putin lost out in prisoner swap with Ukraine


It seems that Ms. Savchenko is indeed interested in politics. She was elected in-absentia to the Veronika Rada as an MP of the Batkivschina (Fatherland) party which is currently in opposition to the corrupt government of Petro Poroshenko.

Kudos to the countless thousands across the entire world who lobbied for and demanded Nadiya's release from Russian captivity. Putin and his security/judicial bodies badly miscalculated here. The international damage to Russia's reputation for kidnapping and holding Lt. Savchenko in captivity for 708 days and orchestrating a Soviet-style "show-trial" is incalculable.