The head of the Russian negotiating team, Vladimir Medianskisaid Saturday that Russia is ready to start the War prison exchange under 25 years and seriously ill and the delivery of fallen in combat, agreed in Istanbul, but Ukraine It postponed the exchange indefinitely.
“The unexpectedly Ukrainian part postponed indefinitely the reception of corpses and the exchange of prisoners. The group of Ukrainian negotiators for some reason did not even go to the place of the exchange. They give various reasons, and all quite strange,” he wrote in Telegram.
Medinski said that “the Russian part, in strict correspondence with what was agreed in Istanbulon June 6, he began to fulfill the humanitarian agreement to deliver 6,000 military bodies of the fallen Ukrainian army to Ukraine, and the exchange of wounded and gravity patients, and the prisoners of war under 25 years. “
“The first departure of frozen corpses of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1,212 bodies, already arrived in trucks refrigerated to the exchange place. The remaining are on their way,” he said, noting that the contact group of the Russian Defense Ministry is already on the border.
Call to kyiv
Medinski called kyiv to “strictly comply with the schedule and all the agreements reached, and hold the exchange immediately.” “Let us allow, as agreed, that 1,200 soldiers and officers of each side have the opportunity to return home,” he said. In addition, he called to “collect the bodies of the 6,000 soldiers and officers of the Ukrainian army so that their families can give them a decent burial.”
“We are in the agreed place. We are ready to work. Television channels, press agencies and foreign media correspondents can come and personally check that this is so. Russia always fulfills their word,” he settled.
The agrees of the exchange of prisoners of war under 25 years, injured and sick, as well as the delivery of 6,000 corpses, were reached during the second round of negotiations in Istanbul, in which the parties exchanged memoranda on the roads to achieve a ceasefire and a lasting peace.
Russia and Ukraine have already exchanged about 1,000 prisoners for side, both civil and military, after agreeing on the first meeting held in Istanbul on May 16.
Moscow’s claim takes place on the same day that Russian attacks have been recorded against the Ukrainian cities of Járkov and Jersón, causing at least five dead and about 25 injured during the early hours of Saturday, local authorities reported. Three of the fatalities were as a result of the attack of an unprecedented magnitude in Járkov, said Igor Terekhov, the mayor of this city, the second of Ukraine.
