Zelensky offers Kremlin to swap arrested Putin’s ally Medvedchuk for Ukrainian war captives

President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered Russia to exchange Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Ukraine, the oligarch and opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk, for Ukrainian captives. 

Medvedchuk was arrested yesterday on treason charges. 

Zelensky himself posted his photo in handcuffs and dressed in army fatigues with a Ukrainian flag patch.

“If Medvedchuk himself chose to wear the military uniform,  it means that he is subject to the rules of war. I propose to the Russian Federation: exchange  your boy for our boys and girls who are now in captivity. It is important that our law enforcement agencies and the military consider this possibility,” Zelensky said.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. 

Hostilities have been in progress since then.