Ukraine has still not received a response from Moscow on proposals from Kyiv to release more than 30 Russian citizens held in Ukraine in exchange for releasing Ukrainian hostages, First Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and Ukraine's envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group's (TCG) humanitarian subgroup Iryna Gerashchenko has said.

"We have not received any responses at the TCG. We later conveyed the proposals via the offices of Ukraine's and Russia's ombudswomen for human rights, through diplomatic channels, but there has been no response," Gerashchenko said at a press conference in Kyiv.

She said that more than four months ago she sent via the TCG the lists of those Russians convicted in Ukraine for serious crimes – terrorism, diversion, espionage, whom Ukraine is willing to release in exchange for Ukrainians held in Russia.

Gerashchenko said she is receiving information from various sources about the worsening condition of Volodymyr Balukh, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 100 days, Oleh Sentsov and other Ukrainian prisoners in Russia.

"Unfortunately, Russia has not responded to any of Ukraine's initiatives," she lamented.