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Zelensky calls on allies to pressure Russia to exchange prisoners

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The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Kyiv is ready to exchange prisoners with Russia “even tomorrow”, urging his country’s allies to put pressure on Moscow.

The exchange “it is a humanitarian issue” and “political decision, which will depend on the support of many states“, Said with an audience the participants in the World Economic Forum of Davos.

«Is important“, he continued “to exert political pressure at every level“By businessmen,”with the closure of businesses, with an embargo on oiland through these threats to increase the exchange of our people with Russian military“, as “we do not need the Russians, but we do need our own».

«We are ready for an exchange even tomorrowHe insisted.

According to Mr. Zelensky, Kyiv has involved the United Nations, Switzerland, Israel and “many” countries in the process, which he described as very complicated.

Thousands of prisoners have fallen into the hands of Russian forces after the occupation of Mariupol and the battles at Donbass, he admitted.

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