The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed gratitude to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for Ukraine and for the decision on the Hope Savchenko.

on Wednesday, the PACE has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April punishment. The Assembly also called on the Russian Federation to withdraw all its troops from Ukraine and " to refrain from supplying weapons to the militias ", "without delay to adopt strong measures against the influx of Russian volunteers to participate in the conflict in the East of Ukraine" and demanded from Russia to release Savchenko within 24 hours or give it to a third party.

"Thanks PACE for the support of Ukraine, the most for a decision on the Hope Savchenko," wrote Poroshenko in private.


Savchenko placed under arrest in Russia from July 2014 on charges of belonging to the deprivation of life 2 correspondents RTR, died during combat operations in the Donbass. Later she was elected a member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE. The very pilot denies all accusations, demanding the return to Ukraine. Before the PACE President Anne Brasseur asked the state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin to help in the liberation Savchenko. He replied that if wine Savchenko will not be proven, it will be released.

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