Leonid Slutsky. Archival photo MOSCOW, May 23. Captured servicemen of the Russian side must be saved at any cost, said the head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, a member of the negotiating group with Ukraine, Leonid Slutsky. «For us, the lives of our prisoners, Russian ones, are very valuable. They must be saved at any cost,» the politician said during a meeting between the Liberal Democratic Party and war veterans. Prisoner exchanges are underway, he added. According to Slutsky, «Russian prisoners of war have a very hard time in captivity.»
