Representatives of separatist-held territories in Donbas region of Ukraine have included Russian military soldier Victor Ageyev in the hostage swap list who was detained by the Ukrainian side in the Luhansk region, but Kyiv insists that he is a war criminal, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group Iryna Gerashchenko has said.
According to Gerashchenko, separatists included Ageyev in their demands for the release claiming he was a “militant”.
“Here Ukraine’s position is unambiguous – it’s a war criminal. We expect the Russian government will recognize his presence in Ukraine and the court must determine the measure of his crimes. The world must know the details of the crime since these are the facts of the Russian military presence in Donbas,” she wrote on her Facebook page on July 31 following the Skype conference of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas.
