Separatists of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions (ORDLO) made 18 Russians in the lists for exchange, said Putin's kum Victor Medvedchuk.

"As for the Russians, I will answer you that today representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk have again brought all the citizens of Russia (18 people I mentioned earlier) to their lists for exchange," he said in an interview with Pavel Kanygin from the Russian "Novaya Gazeta".

Medvedchuk claims that problems with liberation arise precisely from the Ukrainian side. "I expect that the Ukrainian government will focus on the issue of the release of our citizens, and not debate over who can or can not be released from us," he said..

Medvedchuk assured that the negotiations on the exchange of citizens of Ukraine, which are held in Russia, are also continuing.

"I can assure you that these negotiations never stopped and about Sentsov (Oleg Sentsov). They also go by Kolchenko (Alexander Kolchenko), Karpyuk (Nikolay Karpyuk), Klyhu (Stanislav Klykh). On the subject of Suschenko (Roman Sushchenko) are preliminary talks - he has not yet been convicted. Negotiations are constantly, there are different proposals, of which, naturally, I can not yet speak publicly, "Medvedchuk said..