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Member of Ukraine’s Parliament (‘Batkivshchyna’ faction’) Nadia Savchenko will become a member of Rada’s committee for national security and defense issues, MP (‘Batkivshchyna’) Ivan Krulko informed in an interview to ‘112 Ukraine’.



‘After her meetings in the President’s Administration she joined the meeting of ‘Batkivshchyna’ faction. We had a very warm talk. Nadia is a team player and today she proved it, that she is an integral part of our team. She’ll work in Parliament and she asked for help to master the new job as soon as possible. She’ll be a member of Rada’s committee for national security and defense’, - the MP said.

Krulko mentioned, that Savchenko will appear in Parliament as MP on May 31: ‘I think she’ll be in her work place by Tuesday. She’s a military person and, I believe, she’s very serious about her job’.

On May 25, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to pardon Nadia Savchenko after she had been sentenced to 22 years of prison by a Russian court for allegedly being complicit to the murder of two Russian journalists in Donbas, east Ukraine.