Russia has refused to negotiate about the exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and “LDNR” — Gerashchenko
Russia has refused to negotiate about the exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and “LDNR” — Gerashchenko
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Side ORDO ignored the call for Ukraine to hold urgent online negotiations.
The Russian side has refused to participate in Skype-conference on the return of Ukraine 42 hostages, who are the militants in the East.
About this on his page in Facebook wrote a representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian sub-group Irina Gerashchenko.
“I have just received an official letter from the representative of the OSCE in the humanitarian subgroup T. Frisch, the Russian dropped from a Skype conference on the hostage because you don’t agree with this format, because of the lack of protection of such a format,” she said.
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However, she noted that the so-called “leadership” of the “DNR” in General ignored the call immediately to negotiate an exchange of prisoners.
“ORDO do not udosuzhilsya to answer the appeal of the Ukrainian side to immediately discuss the topic of the hostages, the astronomical clock in the last minute gave the OSCE that it is ready to Skype”, — Gerashchenko noted, however, recalled that the tripartite participants of the Minsk format is the Russian Federation, the OSCE and Ukraine, so no other direct negotiations without Russian can not be a priori.
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The Ukrainian side urged to hold a conference of the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Donbas via Skype. Yesterday announced the video conversations did not take place. Like last week, the militants offer the option to take 228 their accomplices, and to give us prison 42 Ukrainian. Still in captivity, according to the SBU, remain for at least 108 prisoners.
Besides, according to Gerashchenko, Russia came up with for denying the absurd reason, because before this, no problems with communication and other things they had.
“The Kremlin wants to discredit the Minsk area because it is the work of the Minsk group is important in the estimation of the world the implementation of agreements since the implementation of the Minsk agreements is tied to the sanctions,” — said the first Deputy Chairman of the Parliament.
Gerashchenko also said that the joint efforts of the Minsk group, which includes Viktor Medvedchuk, and the SBU failed to establish the whereabouts of Ukrainian hostages and to seek confirmation from the militants holding their 58 Ukrainians.
So, 52 people held in the ORDO, 6 — in astronomical clock. To Sep fighters was recognized only in the retention of 20 Ukrainians.
“We gave the proposal to transfer the 228 citizens who were tracked down and asked ORDO before the Christmas holidays to release our citizens. And we still have not received an official answer”, — wrote Gerashchenko.
We will remind, today, 15 December, was held a Skype-conference on the return of Ukraine to at least 42 peoplewhom hold the militants in the East. The day before talks were derailed.