Viktor MedvedchukMOSCOW, April 16 the exchange of Britons captured by the military DPR and the Russian Federation for Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. Earlier on Saturday, Marchenko addressed in a video to relatives of Aiden Eslin and Sean Pinner, saying that they could ask Prime Minister Boris Johnson to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve their release by exchanging for her husband.
"British Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself is primarily interested in resolving the issue of returning his fellow citizens from captivity home. As I wrote earlier, his visit to Zelensky in Kyiv was also related to this issue. Therefore, the story of the detention of the SBU of Viktor Medvedchuk urgently arose. In general, a working construction", — Kiva wrote in the Telegram channel.
On Tuesday, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine 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 Ukrainians. 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. Marchenko later 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.