Ukrainian authorities on Friday reproached the Russian side for torpedoing the prisoner exchange processes, claiming that they «constantly change the conditions without explanation».
This was stated by the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, MP Dimitro Lubinets, to his country’s media. «It is extremely difficult to get along with the Russian side,» he protested.
«Just as they are fighting insidiously against us, so are their negotiations. We want to exchange everyone, or at least by category, but the Russian side cancels someone. Without explanations, it constantly changes the conditions,» Lubinets asserted.
On the other hand, Lubinets estimated that the number of 20,000 civilian hostages who remain under Russian captivity, according to the Ukrainian Ombudsman, could be even higher because many of «those who are in the temporarily occupied territories are afraid or cannot denounce these facts».
Lubinets told that they want to include civilians in the list of the prisoners of war sent to Russia for release and remarked that Moscow «cannot present conditions for civilians, either they release them unconditionally, or they initiate a judicial process and condemn them», he concluded.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
