REUTERS

According to the press service of the president, he said this on Thursday during a meeting with the President of the PACE Anne Brasseur and a PACE delegation now in Ukraine on a working visit.

"We have elected [Savchenko] a member of the delegation to the PACE, and it would be natural if the PACE could take the necessary decisions [to achieve] the release of the deputy, and a pilot who has defended her country," Poroshenko said.

"I ask the PACE to make all necessary efforts to achieve the release of this member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE [from Russian detention]," he said.

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