He has no place in today's Ukraine, but Moscow may not agree to release our fighters.
Today the godfather of the Russian dictator and one of the leaders of the OPZZ Viktor Medvedchuk offered to exchange him for civilians and soldiers in Mariupol. He made such a proposal to the Presidents of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the Presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin. However, the adviser to the head of the OP Mykhailo Podoliak considers such a possibility doubtful, first of all because Moscow will not agree to release Ukrainian fighters.
According to Interfax-Ukraine, Podoliak stressed that objectively Medvedchuk has no place in today's Ukraine, as he is involved in a political and information phenomenon that has caused Russians to hate Ukrainian citizens.
In the OP, I believe that Medvedchuk's proposal is a sense of self-preservation.
“But for us, as a country that is civilized and loves its citizens very much, it is really important. It is important to get all our citizens, all our Mariupol residents out of the barbaric, bloody hands of the Russian army. However, I doubt that the Russians “Mariupol and Azov residents will want to return to human form for a while and seriously support Medvedchuk's initiative,” he added./p>
We will remind, on April 12 the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported about detention of SBU of Vladimir Putin's godfather and the deputy from OPZZH Victor Medvedchuk. Later in the address, the president suggested that Russia exchange him for Ukrainian citizens in captivity. Zelensky also stated the need to try Medvedchuk “according to the rules of wartime.”
on the financing of the “fifth column”. However, they are not sure whether Medvedchuk himself will want this exchange. But after such a proposal, Moscow turned to threats to the Ukrainian authorities , calling the story of Putin's godfather a “British scheme.”
As for the exchange, the day after Medvedchuk's arrest, Russian President Dmitry Peskov's spokesman reminded that he is not a Russian citizen. According to him, Moscow he does not know whether Medvedchuk wants Russia to intervene in his fate.
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