MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to pardon Savchenko.
"I think we did that right. It was necessary to return our citizens. That happened," Lavrov said during a live linkup on kp.ru.
He also said that Savchenko is not the only anti-Russian Ukrainian politician.
"There are almost no politicians there [in Ukraine] who can speak with us normally," he said.
Savchenko 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 Internatinal Airport, after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a corresponding decree to pardon them.
