MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kyiv known as on Moscow on Sunday to supply a listing of Ukrainian prisoners of warfare prepared for a swap after Russia accused Ukraine of sabotaging the change 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 are always ready to exchange prisoners of war!”
Kyiv and Moscow have ceaselessly exchanged prisoners since Russia’s full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbor in 2022. The final swap came about in mid-October with either side 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 supplied at hand over 935 Ukrainian prisoners of warfare however that Ukraine had taken solely 279.
Lubinets, in flip, mentioned that Ukraine was all the time prepared to simply accept its residents and accused Russia of slowing down the change course of.
Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova mentioned on Saturday that Ukraine has “politicised” the problem.
“We consider it necessary to return to a constructive dialogue and speed up the exchange of prisoners,” Moskalkova wrote on Telegram.