A key issue in any meetings between the Presidents of the U.S. and Russia must be the unconditional release of all Ukrainian political prisoners held in occupied Crimea and Russia. This, Oleksiy Bessarabov, Ukrainian academic, political analyst, and Russia’s political prisoner, stresses, is “not a political issue, but one of restoring a minimum level of trust, honor, and morality of nations leaders in the twenty-first century.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken react after their meeting in Kyiv, on May 6, 2021.
