Feygin doubts Savchenko will be returned to Ukraine this month

Mark Feygin, the lawyer of illegally imprisoned in Russia Nadiya Savchenko, doubts that his client will be returned to Ukraine until the end of May.

He said this in a commentary to Segodnya Ukrainian daily.

He also cannot not predict how long the negotiations on extradition of Ukrainian MP, PACE delegate will last.

“As I have understood, the Kremlin’s official position was declared last week: there will be no exchange, only the implementation of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons regarding Savchenko. Nadiya will be definitely returned,” Mark Feygin said.

“The only thing is when it will happen. She is unlikely to be extradited before the end of May. This will, probably, happen in a month or two. If there is an order ‘from above’, Nadiya will be on the border the same day, but the Kremlin does not hurry,” he added.

Meanwhile, Valentyn Rybin, the lawyer of Russian intelligence officers detained in Ukraine, said that he did not rule out a variety of scenarios: Russian special forces officers may serve sentence in Ukraine or Yerofeyev and Alexandrov may be extradited to Russia to serve their term in the homeland.

“It is difficult to say which of them will be implemented as the negotiations (on a possible exchange for Nadiya Savchenko) is rather delicate. Everything will become known soon,” Rybin said.

Another lawyer of Russians, Oksana Sokolovska, said that “it is possible that the President of Ukraine may be asked for pardon soon.”

As reported, the verdict in the case of Russian intelligence servicemen Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeniy Yerofeyev entered into force on May 23. The Holosiivskyi District Court in Kyiv found them guilty of conducting a war of aggression, assisting a terrorist organization and committing a terrorist act and sentenced them to 14 years in prison.

The militants of the illegal armed group of Luhansk region abducted Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko in June 2014 and delivered her to Russia by force, where the court sentenced her to 22 years in prison and also fined for crossing the Russian border. The judges found her guilty of killing two Russian journalists during the fighting in Donbas. She rejects the accusations.