The Ukrainian side at the meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group has asked representatives from the self-proclaimed Donbas republics to clarify their lists of prisoners of war (POW) for an all-for-all exchange.
“Today, representatives of the separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions admitted that in the lists they had submitted earlier of over 600 people they want amnestied, there are quite a few who have nothing to do with the Donbas conflict and by no means fall under the Minsk agreements,” Rada’s first deputy speaker Iryna Herashchenko, who represents Ukraine in the subgroup, wrote on her Facebook page after the subgroup and Trilateral Contact Group meetings held in Minsk on October 5.
Ukraine is doing everything to secure the release of its people whose detention the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic confirmed (45 people), and has demanded “from the separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions a correct list of those whom (as long as it is permitted by procedural rules) Ukraine could hand over in order to get our prisoners released,” Herashchenko said.
“And we demand to be given information on the other hostages we are looking for,” she added.
It was reported that, on Sept. 21, Russia’s representative in the Trilateral Contact Group which mediates the Donbas conflict, Boris Gryzlov stated that under the all-for-all formula in the Minsk agreements, 618 captives must be released by Ukraine and 47 by Donetsk and Luhansk.
