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Russia has not yet considered the possible exchange of editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Ukraine Kirill Vyshynsky for Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, that’s according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

As “As for another individual in question, Mr. [Oleh] Sentsov, he had been detained in Crimea, and by the way- not for his journalistic activities, but for plotting a terrorist act, preparing an explosion, which could hurt specific people. These are completely different things we’re talking about. They are different and incomparable,” Putin said while answering questions during a major “Hot Line” event on June 7.

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