Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has not ruled out the possibility of sharing those arrested in Ukraine Russian citizens Alexander Alexander and Evgeny Erofeev prisoners in the Russian Federation Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov and army Hope Savchenko.
"I think that we must do everything to free Nadia (Savchenko), Oleg Sentsov and other political prisoners. If we need to go through negotiations on exchange - we will look at this possibility, no doubt, " said he, reports news Agency.



According to klimkina, such exchange will be possible only after the legal decisions of the Ukrainian courts against the Russian military. Recall was announced on 17 may about the detention in the settlement Happiness of the military, who called himself a Russian contract soldiers serving in the special forces: Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev. In the Russian defense Ministry asked them to stop the torture and release of two former soldiers. Relatives of captured Russian citizens have also confirmed that they had resigned from the army. Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko was arrested on Russian territory in early July of last year. According to the Russian investigators, Savchenko was a spotter fire under fire in Ukraine correspondents VGTRK Anton Voloshin and Igor Kornelyuk, who then died. She faces up to 25 years of imprisonment. August 25, the North-Caucasian district military court has recognized the Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov guilty in the preparation of terrorist acts in Crimea and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment.

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