Poroshenko says he ready to exchange Savchenko though no such kind of proposal made over 2 years

10:42, 10.03.2016 1 min read

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced his readiness to exchange Ukrainian officer and MP Nadia Savchenko if such a proposal is received.

"If the question is as follows: whether I am ready to make a decision to exchange [Savchenko] for some other person, today I will say for the first time that yes, I am ready. I, as president of Ukraine, am ready to use my constitutional right and exchange Nadia, [ready] to do everything possible to bring her back home as soon as possible," Poroshenko said at a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday, after talks between the two countries' delegations.

However, "there has not been a single time over these two years or so that a single proposal on exchanging Savchenko has arrived from sources that deserve trust," he added.