Vadim Shishimarin during a court hearing in Kyiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 24. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova said that technically the exchange of convicted Russian military Vadim Shishimarin is possible.
"Our scenario may be different. I said that he could be exchanged as a person after a court verdict, technically this is possible. I don’t want to go into exchange processes, this is already politics and diplomacy,” she said on the air of the All-Ukrainian marathon.
On Monday, a court in Ukraine sentenced Shishimarin, accused of violating the laws and customs of war, to life imprisonment. His defense intends to appeal this decision. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, answering the question whether there was a reaction to the verdict on the Russian military in Kyiv, noted that Russia did not have many opportunities to protect him on the spot, but measures would be taken through other channels. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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» />Slutsky promised to seek protection of the Russian military Shishimarin