Ukraine Launches Petition to Appoint Savchenko as Ambassador to Russia

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An online petition was registered on Tuesday on the official website of the Ukrainian President calling to appoint Ukrainian national Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted in Russia of being an accomplice to the murder of two journalists in Donbas, as an ambassador to Russia.

Former Ukrainian army pilot Nadezhda Savchenko looks out from a glass-walled cage as she attends a court hearing in the southern border town of Donetsk in Rostov region, Russia, in this file picture taken March 9, 2016 - Sputnik International
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KIEV (Sputnik) — The petition notes that Ukraine has no ambassador in Russia and calls for the appointment of a person "who will do everything it takes to bring our fellow countrymen back home."

In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to pardon Savchenko. She was delivered to Kiev following the pardoning.

On the day of Savchenko's return to Ukraine, 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.

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