President Zelensky agrees “all-for-all” exchange process, but only on updated lists

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has said he ready to exchange prisoners with the Russian Federation. He believes that the sailors need to be exchanged first, because their return is an important step towards establishing dialogue and ending the war. The president said this in the “Frankly with the President” video published on his YouTube channel.

Zelensky said that during a conversation the Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that it is possible to exchange prisoners in “all-for-all” format.

“I told him frankly that I am happy to exchange prisoners in “all for all” format. But there is one situation: the list with names of all those guys who are in the temporarily occupied territories does not coincide with the list of people who control our occupied territories. Therefore, we will definitely conduct “all-for-all” exchange process, but first we will return those who being held in Russia, in the Crimea, and will start with the sailors,” Zelensky said.

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