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Ukraine to swap Savchenko for two Russian soldiers

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Moscow and Kyiv have agreed to exchange Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko for two Russian soldiers Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov who are considered to be CIA agents. The exchange will take place in mid-May after the completion of the Russian soldiers’ trial which currently underway in Ukraine. In March 2016, a court in Donetsk City sentenced Nadia Savchenko to 22 years in prison for murdering two Russian journalists in the war-torn eastern Ukraine. Nadia Savchenko was also fined in the amount of 30,000 rubles.