First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Ukraine’s humanitarian envoy to the Minsk talks, Iryna Gerashchenko, has named 23 Russians whom Ukraine is ready to swap for illegally detained Ukrainian political prisoners.
Speaking at a briefing on Monday, July 2, Gerashchenko said she was authorized by the Ukrainian special services to disclose the names of those “whom we are ready to transfer to Russia for the release of such Ukrainians as [Oleh] Sentsov, [Oleksandr] Kolchenko, [Roman] Sushchenko, [Pavlo] Hryb, [Volodymyr] Balukh, [Yevhen] Panov and those guys who are held in the occupied territory,” a UNIAN correspondent reports.
