Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that the exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia for Russian citizens held in Ukrainian prisons "is not on the agenda" so far, according to an UNIAN correspondent in Moscow.
"So far there will be no [developments on this issue]. This is not on the agenda. This is a completely different substance," said Peskov.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on November 14, Ukraine’s humanitarian envoy to the Tripartite Contact Group in Minsk, Vice Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Iryna Gerashchenko said 157 citizens of Ukraine remained in captivity of Russian-controlled militants in the occupied Donbas.
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