Putin responded to requests from the wife of the oligarch Medvedchuk to obtain the release of her husband / Article

Putin responded to Marchenko’s pleas and gave her the word that she would save her husband, said sources in Medvedchuk’s inner circle who remained in Ukraine.

Medvedchuk was considered the Kremlin’s closest ally in Ukraine. The media reports that he has close ties to Putin, who is the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter.

After Medvedchuk’s arrest in Ukraine, his wife Marchenko posted several dramatic videos calling for her husband’s release, the publication recalls.

Among others, she turned to Putin, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

According to the sources of the publication in the Ukrainian presidential administration, Putin does not even allow his press officer Dmitry Peskov to get close to him, so even the official representatives of Russia cannot know what the dictator is really thinking and doing.

“What do you think o Peskov [ārlietu ministram Sergejam] Does Lavrov really have access to Putin? They only see him in long-distance encounters.

For everyone to understand, Putin only allows the Secretary of the Security Council to get close to him [Nikolaju] Patrushev and his friend [uzņēmēju Juriju] Kovalchuk, “the source said.

According to senior Ukrainian and US officials familiar with the matter, Putin approved the Russian-Ukrainian prisoner exchange in late September, despite objections from the FSB, worried about public coverage in Russia.

Ukraine and Russia an exchange of prisoners took place on the evening of September 21st. As part of it, 200 Ukrainian soldiers, including “Azovstal” defense commanders, were released against 55 Russians and Medvedchuk.

Turkish President Erdogan previously said Putin had insisted on the release of one particular person as part of a Russian-Ukrainian prisoner exchange.

As the independent Russian publication “The Insider” explained in this regard, it was most likely Medvedchuk.

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