Ukraine can exchange captive Russian sailors for border guards from Zmeiny Island, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk said.

11 sailors rescued from drowning in the Black Sea. Now Russia wants to take them. Ukraine is not against exchanging sailors for our border guards.

“I hope that we will pick them up soon. But the fact is that there are not only sailors, but, as it turned out, 92 people, if I’m not mistaken, whom they captured,” Vereshchuk said in an interview with Suspilny..

Vereshchuk also said that she was approached by the Russian Ombudswoman for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova regarding the possibility of a parity exchange: a sailor for a sailor, a driver for a driver, etc..

“I say - fine, but tell me, please, and who should we change for our mayors, who were captured by the invaders? We need to capture your civilians too? What should we do if you are talking about parity exchange? Prisoners of war, they have an exchange procedure, they have cards that the Russian Federation submits, which we submit,” the minister noted.