Nadezhda Savchenko was given documents for extradition

Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, sentenced to 22 years, began filling out documents for extradition to Ukraine, which were given to her by the head of the pre-trial detention center in Novocherkassk. This was reported by TSN channel with reference to her sister Vera Savchenko.

“She is now filling out documents: application, biographical information and others. As the head of the prison, Kalganov, said, they are necessary for extradition. She was told that these procedural documents needed to be completed in order to be extradited. Let’s hope that this is so,” said Vera Savchenko, who visited her sister in the pre-trial detention center.

The lawyer of the Ukrainian soldier, Ilya Novikov, confirmed the words of Savchenko’s sister to the online publication Meduza. According to him, these actions correspond to the agreements reached between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine. Novikov explained that “extradition is precisely the form chosen for the exchange.”

Savchenko’s defense, according to Novikov, expects that the convicted woman will be extradited to Ukraine at the end of May , when the sentence of the Russians Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeniy Erofeev, convicted in Ukraine, came into force. It is assumed that Savchenko will be exchanged for them.

In a commentary to TSN, Vera Savchenko also noted that her sister is filling out the paperwork, but is afraid that these documents may be used to transport her, since at the beginning of the process she was already deceived in filling out the documents.

At the end of March, the Donetsk City Court of the Rostov Region sentenced Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko to 22 years in prison on charges of murdering VGTRK journalists in the Lugansk region of Ukraine. A court in Kyiv sentenced Russians Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev to 14 years in prison, finding them guilty of terrorism and waging an aggressive war.