The Ukrainian security services (SBU) today released a video of the Ukrainian MP and businessman Victor Medvenchuk, of a close associate of the recently arrested Vladimir Putin, who is being asked to exchange him with soldiers and civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol.
“I want to address Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a request to exchange me on the Ukrainian side with the defenders of Mariupol and its inhabitants,” Medvedev said in a short video, which was not released. who is dressed in black and sitting at a table.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky had proposed last week the “exchange” of the 67-year-old businessman and prominent pro-Russian politician, who was arrested yesterday in an operation of the Ukrainian secret services, with prisoners of war of the Russian armed forces.
“I propose to the Russian Federation to exchange this man with our boys and girls who are currently in captivity in Russia. “… It is important that our security forces and our armed forces also consider this possibility,” Zelenski said in a recorded speech uploaded to the Telegram platform.
Mr. Medvenchuk “to be an example for you. Even the former oligarch could not escape. Not to mention less important criminals (…). “We caught them all,” the head of state added.
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