To release only for the fact that the Director? Putin responded to calls for the release of Ukrainians held
To release only for the fact that the Director? Putin responded to calls for the release of Ukrainians held
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The head of Russia is afraid that “others will come”.
During the press conference of the President of the Russian Federation Moscow, Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsymbaliuk called on Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainians illegally held in Russia.
The correspondent of the UNIAN declared that Russia “has caught a lot of Ukrainian film Directors”, referring to Oleg Sentsov, and personally called on Putin to release the journalist Roman Sushchenko, because the case against him looks politically motivated.
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“Of course, no one has a desire to keep Directors and journalists. But what if the Director was preparing to commit terrorist acts? To let him go just because he’s a Director? First, we let the Director, then human intelligence? We’ll release one, and tomorrow others will come?”, – said the Russian leader.
We will remind, earlier the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov has declared that held in the Russian Ukrainians Oleg Sentsov, Roman Sushchenko and Stanislav Klikh can exchange for Russians detained on Ukrainian territory.
“As for these people, there must be a legal possibility, they were already used when there was an exchange of Hope Savchenko”, – he said, answering a question on possibility of release of the Russian hostages.
At the same time, the head of the Russian foreign Ministry could not explain what it meant.
“It all depends on how the legal procedures will be applied to each of the parties” – pointedly said Lavrov.