17:26 19.04.2016

I hope Putin and I managed to agree on the preliminary algorithm for Savchenko's release – Poroshenko

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I hope Putin and I managed to agree on the preliminary algorithm for Savchenko's release – Poroshenko

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has expressed a hope that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin managed to agree on the preliminary algorithm for the release of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.

"Yesterday's [telephone] talk with Putin was initiated by me, and based upon preliminary results it seems to me that we succeeded to come to an agreement on a definite algorithm for Nadia's release," Poroshenko said during a joint press conference with Danish PM Lars Rasmussen in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Poroshenko went on to reveal that he had given a few instructions in order to have appropriate mechanisms created to return Savchenko to Ukraine.

"Today, I am going to have a meeting with Nadia's mother and sister, and give appropriate instructions to the Ministry of Justice, in order to have alternative mechanisms created. The respective instruction was given to the Foreign Minister, [Pavlo Klimkin] and this difficult work, must end up, I suppose, as soon as possible, with Nadia getting back home," Poroshenko said.

"At least I emphasized my readiness to send the presidential jet in order to take, along with my representatives, Nadia back home, and return her to Ukraine as soon as possible," he said.

Poroshenko also said that he had discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin the prospect of granting access to Savchenko for German doctors.

Besides, Poroshenko revealed that during the conversation with Putin, he raised the question of some other Ukrainian prisoners in Russia, including Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev, who are currently in a poor health conditions. "I also hope that the Russian side will demonstrate certain progress in this regard," Poroshenko said.

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