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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukrainian journalist convicted in Belarus, Pavlo Sharoyko, has been pardoned and returned to Ukraine.

“Another Ukrainian prisoner, journalist Pavlo Sharoyko, sentenced to eight years in Belarus, has been pardoned and is already at home in Ukraine!” Zelensky tweeted on Oct. 4.