Savchenko sworn in as Ukrainian lawmaker:
Ukrainian military aviator Nadia Savchenko, who spent nearly two years in Russian captivity before she was released last week, has been sworn in as a lawmaker in parliament.
Savchenko was elected in 2014 while she was in custody.
She told parliament in Kyiv on May 31 that she would make it her priority to fight for the release of other Ukrainians held in Russia, whom Ukraine describes as political prisoners.
Savchenko returned to Ukraine last week to a hero's welcome after she was convicted and pardoned by Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a prisoner swap.
Savchenko was captured in eastern Ukraine by Russia-backed separatists in June 2014 when she was serving in a volunteer Ukrainian battalion. (AP, Interfax)