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Russia: Zakharova slam's Kiev's 'aggressive' rhetoric following Savchenko swap
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26.05.2016
"Those claims which I heard yesterday from Kiev, I think, are aggressive and I think they don’t aid the creation of a positive atmosphere which could assist the promotion of the implementation of Minsk [agreements]. You heard them yourselves. I don’t even want to comment on them, because they were so aggressive and they were unwise."
Spokesperson for Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said in Moscow on Thursday that the "aggressive" claims of Kiev after the release of Nadezhda Savchenko do not promote the realisation of the Minsk agreements.
Maria Zakharova said, “those claims which I heard yesterday from Kiev, I think, are aggressive and I think they don’t aid the creation of a positive atmosphere which could assist the promotion of the implementation of Minsk [agreements]”.
She also said that it is “is a big myth which is cultivated for unknown reasons” that Savchenko was released in a prisoner swap as a part of the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning Savchenko on Wednesday. In exchange, two Russian citizens who were detained in Ukraine last year and sentenced to 14 years in prison on terrorism charges were also released.
Savchenko had been sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of directing fire that killed two Russian journalists, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in Ukraine's Lugansk Region. She is accused of relaying the coordinates of a checkpoint where the two Russian journalists were subsequently killed by Ukrainian artillery in June 2014. She denied culpability for all the charges.
Spokesperson for Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said in Moscow on Thursday that the "aggressive" claims of Kiev after the release of Nadezhda Savchenko do not promote the realisation of the Minsk agreements.
Maria Zakharova said, “those claims which I heard yesterday from Kiev, I think, are aggressive and I think they don’t aid the creation of a positive atmosphere which could assist the promotion of the implementation of Minsk [agreements]”.
She also said that it is “is a big myth which is cultivated for unknown reasons” that Savchenko was released in a prisoner swap as a part of the implementation of the Minsk agreements.
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning Savchenko on Wednesday. In exchange, two Russian citizens who were detained in Ukraine last year and sentenced to 14 years in prison on terrorism charges were also released.
Savchenko had been sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of directing fire that killed two Russian journalists, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in Ukraine's Lugansk Region. She is accused of relaying the coordinates of a checkpoint where the two Russian journalists were subsequently killed by Ukrainian artillery in June 2014. She denied culpability for all the charges.
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