UKRAINIAN neonazi death squad fanatic Nadezhda Savchenko said yesterday she was ready to stand for the presidency.

“Ukrainians, if you need me to become a president, sure, I will be president,” Ms Savchenko told reporters in Kiev. “Honestly, I would not say I want it, but, if necessary, I will do it.”

The former Ukrainian air force pilot and volunteer in the fascist Aidar Batallion was speaking at her first formal press conference since her release from a Russian prison on Wednesday.

She was sentenced to 22 years in jail in March for her part in the killing of two Russian journalists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region, where the Kiev coup regime was fighting anti-fascist forces.

Billionaire Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko sent his personal jet to fetch Ms Savchenko from Rostov-on Don in western Russia following her pardon, given with the blessing of her victims’ families.

In return, two Russian ex-servicemen taken prisoner while fighting for the Donbass militias were released.

On her arrival at Kiev, Ms Savchenko delivered a wild-eyed rant to hordes of reporters as she stood barefoot on the airport tarmac, and later stood glowering next to Mr Poroshenko as he welcomed her home in front of reporters.

But the two journalists are not the fanatic’s only victims.

After his release by the Kiev regime in March, Lugansk Orthodox archpriest Vladimir Maretsky said Ms Savchenko had tortured him and other prisoners of the regime.

Father Maretsky said she threatened to shoot captives and harvest their organs.