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Putin Pardons Ukrainian Nationals Afanasyev, Soloshenko - Kremlin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Tuesday decrees pardoning for humanitarian reasons two Ukrainian nationals sentenced by a Russian court to lengthy prison terms, the Kremlin press service said in a statement.

Ukrainian servicewoman Nadiya Savchenko talks to the media upon her arrival at Boryspil International airport outside Kiev, Ukraine, May 25, 2016 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Gennady Afanasiev was sentenced by the Moscow City Court in December 2014 to seven years in high-security colony on terrorism charges, while Yury Soloshenko was sentenced in October 2015 to six years in high-security colony on espionage charges.

According to the statement, both pardon decrees come into force on the day of signing.

In late May, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to pardon Savchenko. She was delivered to Kiev following the pardoning.

On the same day, a plane carrying Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov, Russian citizens convicted and sentenced in Ukraine for terrorism-related activities landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a corresponding decree to pardon them.

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