Ukrainian delegation leaves PACE session hall until June 27

Published June 25, 2019. Updated June 25 at 12:02 pm

Iryna Gerashchenko, Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, at a meeting on September 3, 2018. Negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian side for a prisoner swap have stalled since the last exchange in December, 2017.

Photo by Facebook/Iryna Gerashchenko

The Ukrainian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has left the session hall of the PACE in relation to the fact that the Russian delegation is present there and the unwillingness of staying with them in one building, Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Chairperson and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the PACE Iryna Gerashchenko has said.

“The Ukrainian delegation appealed against the rights of the Russian murderers. The hearings on their rights will be held on June 27. Before that, we cannot sit in the same hall with the murderers. We left the assembly hall, and we told [journalists with] the cameras that they [Russians] are murderers,” Gerashchenko wrote on her Facebook page on June 25.