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Posted on 05/25/2016 6:59:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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. The two men were captured in Donbass in May 2015, with Kiev claiming they were Russian servicemen. The Russian Defense Ministry officially denied the allegations, stating that neither Erofeev nor Aleksandrov were serving in the Russian Army at that time.
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I see there was no heroes welcome for the KGB filth back home in Russia today. LOL.
Heroes of Putinist Russia not showing their faces? Now why would that be? LOL.
After all, Putin has assured us that the Russian soldiers who are not fighting in Ukraine are only doing so to protect valiant ethnic Russian tractor drivers who totally are not Russian soldiers with Russian weapons who had nothing to do with shooting down MH17. Putin has nothing to be ashamed of!
Very pleased to hear this.
Its nice to see she’s finally out. I’ve kept tabs on her situation on and off.
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