Putin signed decree pardoning Savchenko - Peskov

15:18, 25.05.2016 1 min read

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning Nadia Savchenko sentenced in Russia; the move was preceded by his meeting with relatives of the Russian journalists whose killing she had been charged with.

"President Putin signed a decree pardoning Savchenko. She left for Kyiv on a Ukrainian airplane that arrived in Rostov," presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

"The meeting was preceded by messages to the head of state from the abovementioned relatives that were written back on March 22 and 23 respectively in which Marianna Dmitriyevna (Voloshina) and Yekaterina Sergeyevna (Kornelyuk) requested pardoning her on compassionate grounds," Peskov said.

"Before writing these requests to the president, Marianna Dmitriyevna and Yekaterina Sergeyevna, for their part, met with Viktor Medvedchuk as special representative of Ukraine on humanitarian issues in the Trilateral Contact Group," Peskov said.