"Talks about exchange are premature": Russia wants to sentence fighters from Azovstal

Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 11:18

Olena Roshchina - Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 11:18

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has said that talks about the possible exchange of Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol for Russian soldiers are premature.

Source: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko, quoted by "RIA Novosti"

Quote from Rudenko: "We will consider all things after those who have surrendered are convicted accordingly and a sentence handed down. Then there may be some other steps. Before that, all talks about an exchange are premature."

Details: Thus, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the possibility of exchanging Vadim Shishimarin, condemned in Ukraine for the killing of a civilian in the Sumy region to life imprisonment .

At the same time, writers for the Kremlin-aligned "RIA Novosti" write only about the exchange of servicemen of the "Azov" National Guard Regiment of Ukraine (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine), whom they call nationalist militants, while other Ukrainian defenders also came out of the dungeons of the Azovstal steelworks: marines, border guards, and police.

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