KIEV (Sputnik) – Earlier, the Ukrainian Justice Ministry has received an appeal from Savchenko, sentenced to prison in Russia, to start procedures ensuring her return to Ukraine.
“Yesterday, the Ukrainian Justice Ministry received a request from Nadezhda in which she asked to start the procedure of returning her to Ukraine. Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko has already begun working,” Burbak said during a parliament session.
Savchenko was sentenced in late March to a 22-year jail term in Russia for her part in killing Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, and refused to appeal the ruling, but Ukrainian authorities have been trying to organize her possible exchange for detained Russian nationals.
