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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to immediately free Ukrainian pilot and parliamentarian Nadia Savchenko.

“I have asked the Italian prime minister to raise the question of Nadia Savchenko with Putin,” Ukrainian presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tseholko quoted Poroshenko as saying on Twitter on March 4.