MOSCOW: Ukraine's president says he has reached a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to release a jailed Ukrainian pilot.
Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in prison in Russia last month for her alleged role in the deaths of two Russian journalists in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Kiev has insisted that Savchenko is a prisoner of war and should be immediately released.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday that he and Putin agreed in a telephone call on Monday on a formula that will allow Savchenko to be returned. Poroshenko would not elaborate what that is.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier that the two presidents talked about Savchenko as well as two Russian officers convicted on Monday of waging a war of aggression in Ukraine.
AP
