The head of the Russian negotiating team, Vladimir Medinski, said this Saturday that Russia is ready to begin the exchange of war prisoners under 25 years of age and seriously ill and the delivery of fallen in combat, agreed in Istanbul, but Ukraine indefinitely postponed the exchange.
“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 strange, “he has written in Telegram.
Medinski has assured that “the Russian part, in strict correspondence with what was agreed in Istanbul, on June 6 began to fulfill the humanitarian agreement of Deliver 6,000 military bodies of the Ukrainian Army to Ukraineand the exchange of wounded and gravity military, 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.
Medinski has called kyiv A “strictly comply with the schedule and all the agreements reachedand make the exchange immediately. “
“Let us allow, as agreed, that 1,200 soldiers and officers of each side have the opportunity to return home,” he explained, before asking “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 workr. Television channels, press agencies and foreign media correspondents can come and personally check that this is so. Russia always fulfills his word, “he has 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.
