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Kremlin: 'Hysteria' over Ukraine pilot blocks a resolution

Associated Press
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    Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko applauds and smiles in a glass cage inside court, in the town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The Ukrainian pilot who is charged with complicity to murder in the deaths of two Russian journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine has arrived to court in southwestern Russia where the verdict in her trial is due to continue. Nadezhda Savchenko served in a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels and was captured by separatist rebels in July 2014 before she surfaced in Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (The Associated Press)

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    Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko sits in a glass cage inside court, in the town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The Ukrainian pilot who is charged with complicity to murder in the deaths of two Russian journalists in war-torn eastern Ukraine has arrived to court in southwestern Russia where the verdict in her trial is due to continue. Nadezhda Savchenko served in a volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels and was captured by separatist rebels in July 2014 before she surfaced in Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (The Associated Press)

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says "hysteria" in Ukraine and the West over imprisoned Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko is interfering with resolving her court case.

Dmitry Peskov, in remarks reported Saturday by the state news agency RIA Novosti, gave no details on what resolution measures were being considered. There is persistent speculation that she could be traded for two Russians who face trial in Ukraine on allegations they were active-duty soldiers working with Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.

Savchenko has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for calling in coordinates for shelling that killed two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine. The United States, Western European countries and Ukraine have called for her release.

Peskov says "such a case can be resolved much more easily and quickly in quietness."