Moscow says Ukrainian fighters to stand trial before possible swap

MOSCOW - Moscow said on Wednesday it would be"premature" to consider a prisoner swap with Kyiv beforeDeputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said Moscow would consider a prisoner swap with Kyiv after the surrendered Ukrainian fighters"are appropriately convicted, sentenced".

"Before that, all talk of an exchange is premature," Rudenko told reporters as quoted by Russian news agencies. Last week, hundreds of Ukrainian defenders of the strategic port city of Mariupol in the country's south-east Among the Ukrainian fighters who gave themselves up were members of the Azov regiment, a former paramilitary unit which has integrated into the Ukrainian armed forces.On Monday, a Kyiv court found Russian serviceman Vadim Shishimarin guilty of war crimes for killing an unarmed civilian and sentenced him to life in prison.

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