22 Mar 2016 16:39

Poroshenko plans to make statement after sentence handed down on Ukrainian pilot Savchenko - Rada deputy

KYIV. March 22 (Interfax) - Kyiv expects that a Russian court will hand down a sentence on Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in the near future, after which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will make a special statement.

"According to information from our partners which we have just received, a sentence is expected to be handed down on Nadiya Savchenko in the near future," Ukrainian parliamentarian Iryna Herashchenko of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Following this, President Poroshenko will issue a statement on the matter, she said.