Viktor MedvedchukMOSCOW, Apr 21 Politics Viktor Medvedchuk was stripped of his membership in the parliamentary committee on human rights people in the «temporarily occupied territories,» said Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko. interethnic relations,” he wrote in the Telegram channel. Medvedchuk was detained by Ukrainian security forces on behalf of Volodymyr Zelensky. The day before, the SBU published a video in which the oppositionist asks the presidents of Russia and Ukraine to exchange him for the residents of Mariupol and the military stationed there. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office reported about the disappearance of the politician at the end of February. Later, Zelensky offered Moscow to exchange Medvedchuk for captured Ukrainians. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian authorities would monitor the process and urged European leaders to do the same. Later, Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko turned to Zelensky on a YouTube page demanding her husband's release. On the same day, she asked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to assist in resolving the issue. On October 8, 2021, Ukrainian law enforcement officers accused Medvedchuk of treason and promoting terrorism. According to the head of the SBU, in 2014 he organized the supply of coal from the territory of Donbas not controlled by Kiev in collusion with the top leadership of Ukraine. Until March 10, the politician was supposed to be under house arrest, later the court allowed him to be taken into custody. Russia
