The Ukrainian side is ready to pardon 11 Russian citizens, convicted of crimes against Ukraine’s sovereignty, who appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with the request to return them to Russia in exchange for Ukrainian political prisoners.
Ukraine’s representative in the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in Donbas and First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko wrote this on her Facebook page on Thursday, Ukrinform reports.
“We will send Russian representatives in the TCG the information about the statements of criminals and terrorists – citizens of the Russian Federation who expressed their desire to return to Russia and wrote their requests to their President Putin. The Ukrainian side and our president are ready to pardon Russian saboteurs and thieves in exchange for the liberation of our political prisoners,” Gerashchenko said. She recalled that 11 Russians convicted in Ukraine had already written statements to Putin.
