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Plane carrying Savchenko departs to Kiev - UPDATED

Plane carrying Savchenko departs to Kiev - <span style="color: red;">UPDATED

25 May 2016 11:58 (UTC +04:00)

According to the information, Ukrainian Presidential Press Secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko and Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Herashchenko welcomed Nadia Savchenko in Rostov.

President Petro Poroshenko will reportedly welcome Savchenko at the Kiev airport.

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12:44

Baku – APA. The Ukrainian presidential aircraft will land at the Rostov-on-Don airport within the next few hours, where Ukrainian military aviator Nadia Savchenko convicted in Russia is waiting for it, several sources with knowledge of the situation told Interfax.

"The presidential aircraft carrying Russian citizens Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov will shortly come from Kyiv to Rostov-on-Don, where Ukrainian citizen Nadia Savchenko has already been brought," one of the sources said.

The exchange will take place at the Rostov-on-Don airport, the source said.