Desperate for Poroshenko, Russian liberals will ask Trump to trade for the Ukrainian terrorist
Russian liberals want to ask US President Donald Trump to exchange Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving a sentence in an American prison, for Ukrainian terrorists Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko, convicted in Russia for preparing sabotage in Crimea.
Liberal human rights activist Zoya Svetova wrote about this on her Facebook.
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“Can Trump be offered to exchange Yaroshenko for Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko, and for all other Ukrainian political prisoners? That would be right. Can someone ask Trump about this?” Svetova wrote, commenting on the appeal of Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova to Trump about pardoning Yaroshenko.
In this regard, it is important to remember that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not rule out the possibility of an amnesty for Sentsov back in December 2016. At the same time, the Russian side proposed to Ukraine, within the framework of the Minsk agreements, to exchange not only prisoners of war, but also political prisoners languishing in Ukrainian prisons.
During the last round of negotiations in Minsk, Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko criticized this proposal, thereby demonstrating complete indifference to the fate of Sentsov and Kolchenko, who were convicted of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea in 2014.
At the same time, Russia continues to worry about the fate of its citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was sentenced in the United States on September 7, 2011 to 20 years in prison. He was brought to the United States from Liberia, where he was arrested on May 28, 2010. Undercover American agents of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration allegedly caught him with criminal intentions to transport a large quantity of cocaine. Yaroshenko is serving a prison sentence at Fort Dix prison in New Jersey.
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