Moscow exchanged the former people’s deputy Viktor Medvedchuk for 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war, since it was primarily needed by the FSB. This was announced at a briefing by the head of the GUR Kirill Budanov in response to the question of the correspondent of RBC-Ukraine.
“Medvedchuk at this stage is most needed by the FSB, because through it there was a direct financing of intelligence networks, officials and so on,” Budanov noted.
According to him, the ex-deputy became for Russians a “means of influence and laundering of money.”
“This is the main reason why the Russians asked about him,” added the head of the Gur.
At the same time, the head of the president’s office Andrei Ermak said that Medvedchuk is a “very powerful medium of information for Russia.”