The speculation of a soon-to-Russian-Ukrainian exchange of prisoners have not been confirmed. The exchange takes place at least not this Friday, informed the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service.
The building of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service, the SBU in Kiev
The press officer of the domestic secret service SBU of Ukraine, Olena Hitlianska, said in an Interview with the Ukrainian Online media “Obozrevatel”, the exchange of prisoners between Russia and the Ukraine will not be conducted this Friday. She added that there is, in principle, no obstacles to this process. “Everything is going according to Plan.” Previously, the office of the President had denied that such an exchange had already taken place. The Kremlin declined to comment on the subject.
Earlier, the Ukrainian and Russian media have reported that Kiev and Moscow had agreed to exchange prisoners. Accordingly, the film’s Director Oleg Sentsov and Ukrainian seafarers should come free. The Russian online portal “Doschd”, which is close to the Opposition, and in General, serious and reliable reports, citing a Facebook entry of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor Ruslan Rjaboschaki, the this posted even more. Another source, a staff member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Anna Islamowa, as well as the former Duma Deputy Ilya Ponomarev.
The Film’s Director Oleg Sentsov
According to government sources in Ukraine, the negotiations are not yet completed. The process of the course, however, informed the office of the President Volodymyr Selenskyj. Previously, a spokeswoman for the security service had objected to on Facebook a consummation of the exchange.
Further speculation about the release
The Ukrainian newspaper “Ukrainskaja Pravda” (“Ukrainian truth”) is a reference to “unconfirmed sources”. After that, President Selenskyj would take the of Russia, released prisoners personally at the airport in Kiev in reception. The plane could land in a few hours. Later, this message has been removed. This could be an indication that the final Details of the prisoner exchange, apparently, but still clear. In the social media, about the Telegram-channel of the Ukrainian state security, appeared similar messages. However, we speculated about the exact arrival time of the flight with the prisoners.
Alexei Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the radio station and the online portal of the “Echo Moskvy” (“Echo of Moscow”), also wrote about the Telegram that the plane will land with the Ukrainian prisoners, in Kiev. A request to the competent Authorities at the airport in Kiev, the officials of the insured, however, that they currently expect no flights to and from Moscow. According to unconfirmed messages that had landed to 1.05 at a plane at the airport Ostafyevo near Moscow. May be, as is speculated in the social media, here is the Russian prisoners on Board.
Incident in the sea of Azov in November 2018
The Ukrainian President Selenskyj has short asked after his election to the presidency of the Kremlin, in Russia, imprisoned prisoners. In the case of a confrontation in the Azov sea on the 25. November 2018, were detained 22 Ukrainian Seamen of the Ukrainian cannon boats “Nikopol” and “Berdyansk” and the tugboat “Jany Kapu” caught. You face a long prison in Russia met. 11. In July, the President Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Selenskyj had a first phone conversation. An important theme of the exchange of prisoners. Appropriate preparations were in progress, reported at the end of August, the Russian TV channel RBK.
A court in Kiev ruled on 28. August, Kirill Wyschinskij, office Director of the news Agency RIA-Novosti Ukraine, was allowed to leave prison. The 52-Year-old, the Ukrainian authorities accused them of high treason. He faces up to 15 years of imprisonment threatened. The head of the foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev, has welcomed the release. Now in both countries there are many reports that Russia and Ukraine could now let the other prisoners free.
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