“I really hope that the exchange will take place, but I am not participating in these negotiations,” the Gromadske website quoted Volcker as saying.
According to him, he knows that for President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky “it is very important to return home all, and especially sailors,” who were detained in the Kerch Strait for violating the Russian border.
Zelensky said earlier that the first results on the exchange of held persons between Ukraine and Russia should be in the coming days.
At the same time, the Kremlin reported that "certain contacts on the issue of exchange are taking place."