BERLIN (Sputnik) — Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to pardon Savchenko. She was delivered to Kiev following the pardoning.
On the same day, a plane carrying Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov, Russian citizens convicted and sentenced in Ukraine for terrorism-related activities landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a corresponding decree to pardon them.
"I hope that release of Savchenko…will bring a new dynamic into the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia," Steinmeier told journalists in Berlin.
