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Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva, who escaped from captivity in Syria, has returned to Kyiv, according to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine.

The ministry said that the journalist arrived at the Boryspil International Airport on March 17. The ministry helped Kochneva with accommodations in Kyiv.

“The health state of our compatriot is satisfactory,” reads a statement of the ministry’s Information Policy Department.

The ministry stressed that “since the time Kochneva was abducted in October 2012 Ukraine took a full range of measures aimed at her release.”

As reported, Kochneva was abducted in Syria by rebels from the Free Syrian Army in October 2012. The journalist’s abductors threatened to kill her if they were not paid a $50 million ransom. In January the rebels told the journalist’s relatives they had agreed to reduce the ransom to $300,000.

On March 11 Kochneva’s relative said that she had escaped from captivity and that she was in Damascus. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has confirmed this information.

On March 13 Kochneva told an Interfax-Ukraine reporter that she planned to come to Ukraine and give a press conference for Ukrainian journalists.

As soon as Kochneva receives her passport in Kyiv, she said she will go to Moscow to see her child.