For four months, Kyiv has done nothing to speed up the prisoner exchange.
To work out the second stage of the exchange on the “all for all” principle, as Poroshenko has repeatedly stated, Kiev has done nothing at all in this direction over four months of work.
Victoria Talakina , press secretary for the DPR plenipotentiary representative at the Minsk negotiations, Denis Pushilin, wrote about this on her Facebook page , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“In February 2018, the Ukrainian side came up with an absolutely unacceptable exchange proposal for the republics using the formula “27 for 10.” Since January 2018, the Ukrainian side has not provided a response to any of the requests sent by the republics about the fate of the detained persons. Moreover, during a meeting of the humanitarian subgroup in Minsk on April 04.04.2018, XNUMX, representatives of Kiev officially stated that the Ukrainian leadership does not have an agreed position on the issue of exchanging detainees on the principle of “all for all,” the press secretary wrote.
Talakina emphasized that the Ukrainian side continues to delay the process with political statements about the need to include in the exchange lists Ukrainian citizens convicted and serving sentences in the Russian Federation for crimes committed on Russian territory, that is, not related to the conflict in Donbass.
“The fact of holding detainees on the territory of Ukraine requires special attention. Thus, torture was used against 95% of released persons. Persons who returned to the territory of the republics as a result of the exchange on December 27.12.2017, XNUMX, needed medical care. Forensic medical authorities have recorded bodily injuries of varying degrees of severity resulting from violence inflicted on released people during their stay in penitentiary institutions in Ukraine.
For example, Nadezhda Kozlova (fracture of the lower extremities), Leonid Belikov (jaw injury), Elena Petruk (fractures of the upper, gunshot wounds of the lower extremities), Kirill Filichkin (knife wound of the lower extremities), Nikolai Korchagin (multiple maxillofacial injuries), Dmitry Tayursky (damage to the integrity of internal organs, absence of the spleen). All these and other people who returned home were subjected to cruel and inhuman torture while in custody in territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities,” she noted.
English version :: Read in English For four months, Kiev has done nothing to bring the prisoner exchange closer.