Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked the families of the journalists killed in Donbas on June 17, 2014, for their position regarding a "pardon" granted to Ukrainian captive pilot Nadia Savchenko, according to Russian news agency TASS.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Yekaterina Kornelyuk (C) and Marianna Voloshina (L), the relatives of two Russian journalists killed in eastern Ukraine in June 2014, at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 25.