Viktor Medvedchuk. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 21Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk may be held in a pre-trial detention center in the SBU building in Askoldov Lane in Kyiv, according to a retired Ukrainian government official who, after the start of a Russian special operation, managed to move to one of the European countries, for fear of their lives, does not disclose their names. The Security Service of Ukraine previously announced the detention of Medvedchuk on behalf of Volodymyr 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. «We can say that Medvedchuk was «lucky.» Since he was exposed in public, they most likely will not be killed and tortured, leaving visible traces. , in a small pre-trial detention center in the SBU building in Askoldov Lane in Kyiv, where defendants in high-profile cases are kept in tolerable conditions,» the ex-official said in an interview with RIA Novosti. The conversation was conducted via audio in one of the messengers.According to a retired official, the uniform in which Medvedchuk is wearing in the photographs distributed on the day of the announcement of the detention is similar to the usual field uniform of an SBU soldier.
The Kremlin did not answer the question about the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk
