Moscow has not yet submitted the idea of ??exchanging a Ukrainian political prisoner in the Russian Federation for Oleg Sentsov to the convicted / under investigation in the USA of Russians Viktor Bout, Konstantin Yaroshenko and Maria Butina. This was stated by Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin on the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, reports liga. net.

According to the head of the foreign ministry, the Russian authorities didn’t talk about this option to anyone - "neither us nor the Americans" - but if the proposal goes, he will.

Earlier, an insider of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta declared that the Kremlin was supposedly ready for such a “humanitarian action”, but after direct negotiations with the White House, bypassing Ukraine as a party to the negotiations. In the Kremlin, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and lawyer Sentsov said that they allegedly knew nothing about this idea.

In his opinion, the appearance of such data in the RosSMI is not accidental: it is "for the sake of raising rates and bargaining". "These are classic criminals (three Russians, - ed..

The idea to put them on one level, to compare Oleg Sentsov with someone unknown, "- the Foreign Minister believes.

Ukrainian director invaders detained in May 2014, condemning the fake case in August 2015 for 20 years in a strict regime colony "for preparing terrorist attacks in the Crimea". Sentsov is in a polar prison in Labytnangi. On May 14, he began an indefinite hunger strike demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners.. His sister said that Sentsov had already written a will..