Isaac Webb: Ukraine’s uneasy justice – The politics behind the prisoner exchange
Nadiya Savchenko makes her first appearance after her plane landed in Ukraine on May 25.
On May 25, Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko returned to her country after nearly two years in Russian detention. Sentenced to 22 years in prison by a court in the Russian border town of Donetsk for her purported role in the deaths of two Russian journalists in 2014, Savchenko was released in exchange for two alleged Russia military intelligence officers who had been held in Ukrainian custody.
