Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited the places of detention of Ukrainian prisoners in the temporarily occupied Donetsk and Gorlovka over the past month. Now they are trying to get to the captives in the Lugansk region.
The Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War also reported that Ukraine knows the place where far from all the “Azov” are kept, since after the terrorist attack in Olenivka they were taken to different camps and kept in isolation. Therefore, there is less information about the Azov fighters from those who returned from Russian captivity.
According to the Russian opposition publication Verstka, the parties have carried out 38 exchanges since the beginning of the war, which have been publicly announced.
The exchanges, judging by the statements of the Ukrainian authorities, began a year ago – on March 1, five fighters of the Ukrainian territorial defense were exchanged for one Russian officer, after that they carried out two more exchanges, and in April, Ukraine, according to the authorities of the country, managed to return home about 300 people. Russia, in April, officially confirmed the exchange of about 130 people.
Today, the Ukrainian side is still looking for a third country that could act as an intermediary in the exchange of “Azov”.
We pin certain hopes on Turkey, because this country has real levers of influence on the Russian Federation. In addition, there was already a precedent for Ankara’s participation in the exchange, the Coordination Headquarters said.
Source: Racurs
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