Ukrainian politician and oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk has been caught

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Brian Tyler Cohen
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BREAKING: Ukrainian politician and oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk has been caught and arrested by Ukrainian forces for high treason.

He is regarded as a best friend of Putin who was speculated to be put in charge of a Ukrainian puppet government if Russia wins the war.

 

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Zelenskyy offers to swap captured pro-Kremlin oligarch who holidays with Putin for kidnapped Ukrainians

Bill Bostock
Wed, April 13, 2022

• Zelenskyy offered Russia the chance to trade a captured Putin loyalist for Ukrainian prisoners.
• Ukraine said Tuesday it had arrested Viktor Medvedchuk as he tried to flee the country.
• Russia has captured thousands of Ukrainian civilians and sent them to Russian territory.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered Russia the chance to trade a captured pro-Kremlin oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin for kidnapped Ukrainians.


Ukraine's security service said Tuesday it had captured Viktor Medvedchuk, the millionaire chairman of the pro-Russian political group Ukrainian Choice, with Zelenskyy later posting a photo of him in handcuffs to Telegram.

Medvedchuk seen in handcuffs while being detained by security forces in an unknown location in Ukraine. Handout picture released April 12, 2022.Press service of State Security Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters


Medvedchuk is close to President Vladimir Putin:The pair have often holidayed together on the Black Sea and Putin is godfather to Medvedchuk's youngest daughter. Like Putin, Medvedchuk has long supported the idea that Ukraine and Russia are indisputably tied together by history.

In a video address posted on Telegram Tuesday night, Zelenskyy said Medvedchuk was captured while trying to flee the country disguised as a Ukrainian soldier, and that he was open to a trade with Russia.

"I think it is especially cynical of him to use military camouflage. He tried to disguise himself like that. Such a 'soldier.' Such a 'patriot,'" he said.

Medvedchuk and Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July 2019.Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

Russia is believed to have captured thousands of Ukrainian civilians, and sent many to "filtration camps" in Russia.

Zelenskyy also warned that Ukraine would track every person who helping Russia in the war.

"Let Medvedchuk be an example for you. Even the former oligarch did not escape, not to mention much more ordinary criminals from the Russian boondocks. We will get everyone," he said.

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Zelenskyy offers to swap captured pro-Kremlin oligarch who holidays with Putin for kidnapped Ukrainians

Ukraine on Tuesday announced it had arrested Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Kremlin oligarch and politician, as he tried to flee Ukraine.

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