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UkrInform: Kyiv offers Moscow 23 Russians for Kremlin’s political prisoners

By UkrInform.

Published April 5, 2018 at 11:05 am

Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko, accused by Russia's FSB security service of being a spy, stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at a court in Moscow on Nov. 28, 2016.

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The Ukrainian side at a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas expressed its readiness to transfer to Russia 23 persons convicted for crimes against Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for Ukrainian political prisoners.

First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko, who represents Ukraine in the TCG’s humanitarian subgroup, wrote this on her Facebook page.