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Bad Dog

(2,025 posts) Wed May 25, 2016, 06:42 AM May 2016

Savchenko 'freed in prisoner swap'

Source: BBC

Ukraine's Nadiya Savchenko, hailed as hero at home and jailed for murder in Russia, freed in prisoner swap - reports

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Godspeed to that brave woman uhnope May 2016 #1

Some more details have emerged. Bad Dog May 2016 #2

uhnope

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1. Godspeed to that brave woman

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Wed May 25, 2016, 06:45 AM

May 2016

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and to the fight against imperialist Russian fascism

Bad Dog

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2. Some more details have emerged.

Reply to uhnope (Reply #1)

Wed May 25, 2016, 07:11 AM

May 2016

There has been no official confirmation but sources said she was swapped for Russian prisoners Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov held by Ukraine.

Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in jail for killing two journalists in eastern Ukraine - charges she strenuously denied.

She has become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance against Russia at home.

The 34-year-old pilot was being flown from the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to Kiev on board Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's plane, sources said.

She definitely had a show trial.

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