DONETSK, May 21. Member of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, head of the LDPR faction Leonid Slutsky during his visit to Donetsk, he said that Moscow would study the initiative of exchanging Azov militants for the Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk (a criminal case was initiated against them in Russia). «As for the exchange, we will study the issue. Not just us, but those who has the authority in Moscow to study and make decisions regarding the initiative to exchange Medvedchuk for Azov,» Slutsky said. in favor of UkraineRegarding the entire negotiation process with Ukraine, he recalled that the main commentator from Moscow is the head of the negotiating team, Vladimir Medinsky, and everyone needs to be very careful with «a very thin and delicate fabric of diplomacy.» Previously, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Vo Lodin stated that Nazi criminals should not be exchanged, and Russia is doing everything to ensure that they are brought to justice. The Security Service of Ukraine previously announced the detention of Medvedchuk on behalf of Volodymyr Zelensky. 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 with a demand to release her husband. On the same day, she asked Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to assist in the release of her husband.
