Poroshenko to pardon woman who committed ‘serious crime’ against Ukraine


Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko will pardon a woman who has committed a serious crime against Ukraine.

The Ukrainian leader is taking such a step for the sake of speeding up the process of releasing Ukrainian hostages in Donbas, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko said on January, 15.

She recalled that Poroshenko wanted the period of time between two rounds of swap to be ‘very short’.

“In the next few hours, soon, the president of Ukraine will pardon a woman who has committed a serious crime against the state of Ukraine, in order to expect that serious work will continue on the release, first of all, of our military who are being held captive in the occupied areas [in Donbas] for a long time,” Ukrainian news agency UNIAN quotes the official as saying.

On December 27, the prisoner swap between pro-Russian separatists and Ukraine was held according to ‘306 for 74’ formula.

belsat.eu, following UNIAN

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