MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kyiv known as on Moscow on Sunday to supply an inventory of Ukrainian prisoners of conflict prepared for a swap after Russia accused Ukraine of sabotaging the alternate course of.
In requesting the checklist of Ukrainians from his Russian counterpart, Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets wrote on his Telegram messaging channel: “We’re all the time able to alternate prisoners of conflict!”
Kyiv and Moscow have incessantly exchanged prisoners since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbor in 2022. The final swap came about in mid-October with both sides bringing house 95 prisoners.
On Saturday, Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova mentioned that Ukraine was basically sabotaging the method and has refused to take again its personal residents.
Zakharova mentioned Russia’s defence ministry had provided handy over 935 Ukrainian prisoners of conflict however that Ukraine had taken solely 279.
Lubinets, in flip, mentioned that Ukraine was all the time prepared to just accept its residents and accused Russia of slowing down the alternate course of.
Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova mentioned on Saturday that Ukraine has “politicised” the problem.
“We take into account it essential to return to a constructive dialogue and velocity up the alternate of prisoners,” Moskalkova wrote on Telegram.
