Russian state television today released a video in which two Britons fighting for Ukraine and detained by the Russian side in Mariupol demand that the Ukrainians replace them as a pro-Russian politician who is in Ukrainian captivity. MP Viktor Medvedchuk The team is Ukrainian MP Viktor Medvedchuk, said the portal Ukrainian Truth. In the video, Medvedchuk offers to be replaced by the defenders of Mariupol and the opening of a humanitarian corridor from this southern Ukrainian city. The British media have previously reported on the detention of two British citizens who fought on the Ukrainian side against the Russian invasion and were apparently detained in Mariupol last week. According to them, this is a former British soldier Shaun Pinner, who, according to Sunday’s information, is Sky New in the Donetsk region controlled by pro-Russian separatists. The second detained British citizen is Aiden Aslin, who, according to Sky News, joined the Ukrainian Navy in 2018 and applied for Ukrainian citizenship. Today, Russian television Rossiya 24 broadcast a video in which the two men ask British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help them get home and trade them for Medvedchuk. Around the same time, the Ukrainian news portal published a video in which Medvedchuk asks Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenský to replace him as Mariupol defenders and residents of the city. It is in the Russian siege.