Freed military prisoner Nadiya Savchenko says she's ready to become Ukraine's next president, if need be

At a press conference earlier today in Kiev, Nadiya Savchenko announced that she is ready to become the president of Ukraine, in the event that the Ukrainian people feel it is necessary.

Savchenko says she would prefer to continue her career as a pilot, but she's also willing to enter politics. She says she wants to work in a capacity that is useful to the Ukrainian nation.

• On May 25, Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree pardoning Nadiya Savchenko, the Ukrainian soldier convicted in Russia of involvement in the killings of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine and sentenced to 22 years in prison. The now famous Ukrainian pilot's homecoming was the result of a prisoner swap, and her counterparts—Russian citizens Yevgeni Yerofeev and Alexander Aleksandrov—were delivered to Moscow from Ukraine. In mid-April, following Savchenko's trial, a court in Kiev convicted Yerofeev and Aleksandrov of illegal border crossing, illegal weapons possession, and involvement in a terrorist organization, and sentenced each man to 14 years in prison.