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"A telephone conversation was held with Putin on my initiative yesterday. Judging from certain preliminary agreements, I think we have managed to find out a certain model for the release of Nadia," he said at a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen in Kyiv on Tuesday.

"As you know, yesterday the court announced a verdict on Russian GRU officers [Yevgeny] Yerofeyev and [Alexander] Alexandrov, and this court ruling suggests certain possibilities for employing a mechanism of exchange," he added.

Read alsoRussian GRU officers Yerofeyev, Alexandrov sentenced to 14 years in prison"However, I would like to ask everybody to refrain from speculations about this, about the terms of the return [of Savchenko home] and about any further steps – this issue cannot be a matter of political gambling," he said.

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