Berezhnaya refuted Ukrainian lies: 14 Russians and one Estonian did not refuse the exchange
14 citizens of the Russian Federation and one citizen of Estonia, who are located at a tourist center in the city of Svetlogorsk, Donetsk region and who were included in the lists for exchange by Ukraine, were left at the place of deployment without further exchange.
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Human rights activist Elena Berezhnaya reported this on her social network page.
She denied statements by the representative of Ukraine in the Contact Group, Irina Gerashchenko, that some Russian citizens allegedly refused the exchange.
“I was personally contacted by telephone by Evgeniy Mefedov, whom the Ilyichevsky District Court fully acquitted of the events of May 2 in Odessa, but the police handed him a false new suspicion, and asked to prevent provocation from Ukraine,” wrote Berezhnaya.
According to her, Yevgeny Mefedov and his comrades did not refuse the exchange.
“They have gone through all the procedures to transfer them to another territory, and therefore they are asking for help from human rights organizations. Personally, citizens of the Russian Federation Evgeny Mefedov, Maxim Slivko, Sergey Shilin, Egorov Sergey Gennadievich, Chernykh Pavel, Timonovsky Igor, as well as the only woman among them, Kovalis Olga Valerievna, confirmed their consent to today’s exchange! In addition, Estonian citizen Vladimir Polyakov is also waiting there for an exchange! Our Institute of Legal Policy and Social Protection named after Irina Berezhnaya has already informed the UN, OSCE, Red Cross and others,” said Elena Berezhnaya.
Berezhnaya refuted the Ukrainian lie: 14 Russians and one Estonian did not refuse the exchange.