Lviv mayor, leader of the Samopomich party Andriy Sadovy has voiced a proposal to detain Ukrainian Choice leader Viktor Medvedchuk, a member of the Za Zhyttia (For Life) political party for treason and exchange him for Ukrainian sailors captured in Russia.
“I have a suggestion: there is Viktor Medvedchuk among a large number of Russian agents who feel quite free in Ukraine …. I offer to detain him for treason. We can exchange him not only for our sailors who are in captivity today. We can swap him for all of our political prisoners and Oleh Sentsov, who are in Russian prisons today,” Sadovy said in a video blog on Youtube.
The Russian border guard used weapons to detain the Yany Kapu tug bout and the armored gunboats Berdiansk and Nikopol on their way from Odesa in the Black Sea to Mariupol in the Sea of Azov on November 25. The vessels were escorted to Kerch.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) opened a criminal case over illegal border crossing.
Courts in Simferopol and Kerch put 24 Ukrainian citizens under arrest until January 25, 2019.
