MOSCOW - Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to release a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko said on April 19, without elaborating if it would entail a swap for two Russian servicemen convicted by Kyiv.
Associated Press: Ukraine, Russia reach deal to release pilot, Poroshenko says
Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko looks out from a defendants' cage after the first day of the verdict announcement at a court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk, on March 21.