Oksana Marchenko, wife of Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. Archival photoMOSCOW, 16 Apr. Viktor Medvedchuk's wife, Oksana Marchenko, turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to organize the exchange of her husband. in a video posted on her YouTube channel. Marchenko added that she did not believe in the possibility of a fair trial in her husband's case. She added that Medvedchuk agreed to the exchange if Moscow and Kyiv were able to agree on this issue. According to her, there are now thousands of prisoners in the dungeons of the SBU, who were taken away only for their position and attempts to tell the truth. 
Medvedchuk's wife accused the Ukrainian authorities of torturing her husband «Among them are many well-known people, such as Ukrainian writer Yan Taksyura, historian Alexander Karevin, the Kononovichi brothers, journalist Yuri Tkachev, former deputy Oleg Novikov, deputy of the Mariupol City Council Vladimir Klymenko, political expert Gleb Lyashenko and many others,” she said, asking for help in their release. On Tuesday, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention of an opposition leader on behalf of Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office reported about the disappearance of the politician at the end of February. In October 2021, he was charged with treason and aiding terrorism. According to investigators, in 2014, Medvedchuk, in collusion with the leadership of Ukraine, organized the supply of coal from the territory of Donbass not controlled by Kiev. Earlier, a court in Lviv arrested him without the right to make bail. Later, Zelensky suggested that Moscow exchange the oppositionist for captured Ukrainians. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin will monitor the fate of Medvedchuk and urge European politicians to do so. At the same time, he stressed that the Ukrainian oppositionist is not a citizen of Russia and has nothing to do with the special operation.
