Vladimir Zelensky. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 13Volodymyr Zelensky offered Russia to exchange the detained head of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk for captured Ukrainians. abroad». He referred to the fact that Medvedchuk was wearing a military uniform in the published photo and offered Russia to exchange him for captured Ukrainians.The Investigative Committee showed a video of the interrogation of the surrendered deputy commander of the Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine In the fall of last year, the leader of the Opposition Platform for Life was charged with treason and promoting terrorism. According to the SBU, in 2014, Medvedchuk, in collusion with the top leadership of Ukraine, organized the supply of coal from the territory of Donbas not controlled by Kiev. Then he was placed under house arrest. In March, the court allowed the politician to be arrested. His lawyer, Larisa Cherednichenko, stated that Medvedchuk had left his house in Kyiv, but remained in the city. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on reports of Medvedchuk's detention, noted that he had seen the message, but could not say how true it was. According to him, there are a lot of fakes coming from Ukraine, so everything needs to be checked. Deprived of the mandate, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva, in connection with the news of Medvedchuk's detention, said that Zelensky needed a «loud informational occasion» to divert attention from the death of Ukrainian nationalists and marines in Mariupol. , on the eve of more than a thousand Ukrainian marines surrendered in Mariupol. «There are hundreds of wounded among them. This is the right choice,» he wrote on his Telegram channel. According to Kadyrov, Ukrainian groups are breaking up one after another, they don't know what to do with the wounded, they don't understand where to turn and what to do next, » after all, resistance is useless, and there are practically no combat forces left.Ukrainian nationalists hold hostage more than six thousand foreignersEarlier, Russian units did not allow the Ukrainian military to leave the encirclement at the plant named after Ilyich in Mariupol, this was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov. He clarified that the Ukrainians made an attempt to break through on April 11 at night. Konashenkov clarified that Russian units destroyed three Ukrainian tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, seven vehicles and up to 50 personnel. Another 42 Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered. Liberation of Mariupol At the time of the proclamation of the Donetsk People's Republic in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450,000 people, was the second largest city in the DPR after Donetsk. However, in June of that year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine. Since early March, the city has been surrounded. Currently, the allied forces of the DPR and Russia are fighting for the final liberation of the city. Among other Ukrainian units, it houses the Azov nationalist regiment, against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in Russia. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. .jpg» />Day 48: 38 military installations of Ukraine were destroyed, Putin about the special operation
