Medvedchuk asked Putin and Zelensky to exchange him for residents and defenders of Mariupol

Medvedchuk said this in a statement issued by the Security Service of Ukraine.

"I, Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk, want to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to exchange me on the Ukrainian side for the defenders of Mariupol and the residents who are there today and do not have the opportunity to leave safely through the humanitarian corridor," Medvedchuk said.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky offered Russia to exchange Medvedchuk for captured Ukrainians.

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