“We do not talk about this and we urge everyone to be silent on this subject,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Peskov added that such issues can only be discussed in silence.

Earlier, John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council, said that Washington and Moscow continue to negotiate a prisoner exchange.

According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a special channel with the United States for the exchange of prisoners is working.