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MOSCOW, Apr 18The Security Service of Ukraine published a video in which the detained Ukrainian oppositionist Viktor Medvedchuk asks Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to exchange him for residents and Ukrainian military in Mariupol. «I, Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk, want to appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with a request that the Ukrainian side exchange me for the defenders of Mariupol and the residents who are there today,” Medvedchuk says in a video published by the Security Council of Ukraine on the Telegram channel. as they are called by the representatives of the Kiev regime who detained him. He also claims that there is no way out of Mariupol through humanitarian corridors, despite the possibility of an exit repeatedly announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense. jpg» />The Kremlin commented on the call of Medvedchuk's wife for assistance in his exchange. The video with Medvedchuk was published immediately after the statement of two British nationals who surrendered in Ukraine, who turned to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for an opposition Ukrainian politician. The security services of Ukraine previously reported detention of Medvedchuk on behalf of Zelensky. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office reported about the disappearance of the politician at the end of February. Later, Zelensky offered Russia to exchange Medvedchuk for captured citizens of Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin will monitor the fate of Medvedchuk and urge European politicians to do so. Later, Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko turned to Zelensky on his YouTube page demanding that her husband be released. On the same day, she asked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to assist in the release of her husband.