MOSCOW, May 28. /TASS/. The family of Vladimir Medinsky, Russian presidential adviser and head of the country’s delegation at the talks with Ukraine, received threats from Ukrainians, journalist Vladimir Solovyov said in televised remarks.
"The thing is that in the past few days, Vladimir Rostislavovich's family, the family itself and the relatives, both adult family members and children, have been receiving threats with quite specific content, saying that 'We know where your children are and we have many rigged scooters,' hinting at a number of terrorist attacks that have been carried out that way," he said.
"In international practice, responsibility for the life, health and safety of negotiators always lies with the other party, the receiving party, if you will. There have been cases when negotiators faced threats, and there were tragic cases, and they are well known, including in our history. Ukrainian Nazis took the matter a step further: They went as far as threaten family members. And when Vladimir Rostislavovich directly asked [Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem] Umerov, who led the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, about how he felt about this, he said, after taking a pause, ‘I asked around: It's definitely not us. It is most likely our Nazis. We have no influence on them,’" the journalist said.