Viktor Medvedchuk has addressed Zelensky and Putin.

Militarnyi informs about it.

The recording with the request for exchange was published by the SSU.

“I would like to address Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation with a proposal to exchange me for the defenders and residents of Mariupol, those being inside a besieged city without safe access to humanitarian corridors to flee the area,” Medvedchuk said.

The Security Service of Ukraine stressed that approximately 120,000 civilians remain in besieged Mariupol, while fighters of the Azov Regiment and the 36th Marine Brigade continue to defend the war-torn city.

Previously, on April 16, the Lychakiv District Court of Lviv assigned detention as a measure of restraint to Medvedchuk.

Viktor Medvedchuk was detained on April 12. The Security Service of Ukraine published a photo of him wearing a Ukrainian military uniform. In this way, he was trying to disguise himself.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation was trying to take the fugitive MP first to Transnistria, and later to Moscow.

The Security Service of Ukraine detained him on his way out of the Kyiv region.

Medvedchuk’s escape from house arrest was reported on February 27, 2022.