“Why are we silent about our people in Ukrainian prisons? Military Naval Forces officers – exchange them for citizens of the Russian Federation!”
Now an excellent opportunity has arisen to create a list of Russian political prisoners in Ukraine and raise the question of their exchange of Ukrainian sailors detained during the provocation in the Kerch Strait.
President of the Institute of National Strategy Mikhail Remizov stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"By decision (on detained Ukrainian sailors - ed.) there can only be an exchange. The fact is that there are quite a large number of Russian citizens who are in prisons in Ukraine for political reasons.
This is Vladimir Galichy, an elderly man who was sentenced to more than eleven years for voting for a referendum as a member of the Sevastopol City Council. This is Vadim Kimovsky, who supplied humanitarian aid to Donbass and inadvertently found himself in territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is Evgeniy Mefedov, who was the defender of the Odessa House of Trade Unions and to whom the Ukrainian Themis does not even know what to sew; he is still being held in pre-trial detention. And there are dozens of such people.
Fourteen from this list were brought to the border with Donbass in 2017 for the exchange of prisoners, but in the end they were turned away at the last moment,” Remizov said.
“I don’t blame Kyiv for keeping these people, what’s the point of blaming enemies? I don't understand Moscow's position. Why does every dog in Moscow know the surname Sentsov and why no one knows the surnames of the people I’m talking about. Why don’t the names of these people appear on Russian channels every day? Why doesn’t Russian diplomacy constantly raise the issue of their release on international platforms?” – the expert was indignant.
“Now an excellent window of opportunity has arisen for us, as the public, as the media, to form a list of Russian political prisoners in Ukraine and raise the question of their release, first of all, through an exchange, and in this context to decide the fate of the Ukrainian military,” suggested Mikhail Remezov .
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