The Russian Ministry of Justice received a request from Ukraine to extradite Savchenko

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation received a request from the Ukrainian side for the provision of documents necessary for the transfer of a Ukrainian woman convicted in the Russian Federation, Nadezhda Savchenko, to serve her sentence in Ukraine. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the department.

The ministry explained that the correctional institution transfers the documents necessary for the transfer of the convict to the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), and from there they go to the Ministry of Justice, where they are checked for compliance with the Convention on the Transfer of Convicts.

“The issue of the transfer of N. Savchenko after collecting and checking all the necessary documents, in accordance with the norms of the Convention, will be decided by the court,” Interfax quotes the Ministry of Justice.

“The transfer of a person may be refused in cases where none of the acts for which the person was convicted is recognized as a crime under the laws of the state of which the convicted person is a citizen,” the press service of the department said.

Interfax

• Nadezhda Savchenko was sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison on charges of murdering VGTRK employees in Donbass. Her defense argued in court that Savchenko was captured before the shelling that killed the journalists. After the verdict came into force, Savchenko announced a dry hunger strike.
• On April 19, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that he had agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin "a certain algorithm for the release" of Savchenko. Later, the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice stated that it had prepared documents for Savchenko's return to Ukraine on the basis of the 1983 Convention on the Transfer of Convicted Persons.
• The media has repeatedly expressed the version that Russia will exchange Savchenko for the Russians Yevgeny Erofeev and Alexander Aleksandrov, who were captured in May 2015 during a battle in the Lugansk region and on April 18, 2016 were sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 14 years in prison for terrorism and waging an aggressive war . Petro Poroshenko stated that the verdict "opens up certain opportunities for the implementation of the exchange mechanism."