On the 27th day of November, 2017, the hostages of the occupation authorities were exchanged for those who committed crimes against Ukraine. “During the exchange process within the framework of the Minsk process, not a single citizen of the Russian Federation was extradited in order to exchange them for the Ukrainian political prisoners in future”, – the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko said.
According to the President of Ukraine, these people are planning to exchange under other conditions. “More efforts will be put to draw our citizens from Russian prisons, from the occupied Crimea. And for this reason we have not returned a single Russian today, and more than 15 Russian citizens who are staying in our prisons should be used to return Sushchenko, Sentsov, Kolchenko, Klykh, Karpyuk and many others home”, – Petro Poroshenko said.