Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned two Ukrainian citizens Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev, detained on terrorism and espionage charges in Russia, out of humanitarian considerations, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin’s decrees on the pardons enter into force upon signing, the statement said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tweeted: “At last! Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev are already aboard a Ukrainian plane, heading from Moscow to Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned two Ukrainian citizens Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev, detained on terrorism and espionage charges in Russia, out of humanitarian considerations, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin’s decrees on the pardons enter into force upon signing, the statement said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tweeted: “At last! Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev are already aboard a Ukrainian plane, heading from Moscow to Ukraine.”
Putin’s decrees on the pardons enter into force upon signing, the statement said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tweeted: “At last! Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev are already aboard a Ukrainian plane, heading from Moscow to Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned two Ukrainian citizens Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev, detained on terrorism and espionage charges in Russia, out of humanitarian considerations, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Putin’s decrees on the pardons enter into force upon signing, the statement said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tweeted: “At last! Yury Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev are already aboard a Ukrainian plane, heading from Moscow to Ukraine.”
In December 2014, Afanasyev was sentenced by a court in Moscow to seven years in jail for preparing attacks in Crimea.
In May, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that Kiev was negotiating with Moscow about the release of Soloshenko and Afanasyev.
The same month, Ukraine’s pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin and swapped for two Russian citizens jailed in Ukraine on terrorism charges, which they had denied.
Savchenko was found guilty of the murder of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Lugansk, Eastern Ukraine, and of illegally crossing the Russian border
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