Talk about the exchange of Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk for Azov fighters who surrendered to Mariupol is possible, these are different categories, while the exchange process with Ukraine is constantly ongoing, the military is engaged in this, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said. P>
“We have already said that Medvedchuk is a citizen of Ukraine, he has nothing to do with the Russian Federation. And he is not a military man. In the case of persons who surrendered to” Azovstal “, there are about the military and about members” Nationalist formations. “Therefore, these are completely different categories of persons, and here it is hardly possible to talk about some exchange,” Peskov said, answering the question of whether the Kremlin’s agenda is the issue of the exchange of Medvedchuk and whether it is allowed to exchange his exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war.
At the same time, Peskov did not answer the clarifying question whether the exchange of “Azov” for the Russian military is possible. “I can’t answer this question … In general, the exchange process in one form or another is constantly going on. It is important for us – it is clear for what reasons. But the military is specifically engaged in this,” RIA Novosti quotes the words of Peskov.
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Earlier, a member of the delegation of the Russian Federation in negotiations with Ukraine, the head of the LDPR faction Leonid Slutsky, during his visit to Donetsk, said that in Moscow they will study the initiative of the exchange of Medvedchuk for Azov fighters.