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The militants are demanding a “cleaning of procedure” for those who were transferred to them during the previous exchange, explained Sergey Garmash, a representative of the Donetsk region in the Ukrainian delegation to TCG to resolve the situation in Donbass.
On December 16, in talks in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) to resolve the situation in Donbas, militants continue to block the exchange of detainees. This was announced on Facebook by the representative of the Donetsk region in the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, journalist Sergei Garmash.
“They continue to block the exchange, demanding the procedural cleanliness of nine people that we gave them during the last exchange. to their lawyers, “he wrote.
The journalist pointed out that “the other party knows it, but uses it as an excuse to block the exchange.”
“But the most cynical thing is the fact that the procedural cleansing of people who are already free and who don’t really need this cleansing in Ukraine is placed on one side of the scale (they fought Ukraine, so they hate it), and on the other, freedom, the life and health of those who have been sitting in basements for years and not only “procedural cleanliness” is relevant to them, but at least only the opportunity to wash, “Garmash said.
Last week, Garmash said Ukraine provided lists for detainee exchanges on four occasions and unilaterally complied with agreements reached at the Normandy Four summit in Paris on December 9, 2019.
Then there was the first summit in three years of the leaders of the “Normandy Four” – Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia, dedicated to the resolution of the conflict in Donbass. The final communiqué establishes that the parties agreed to a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the formula of “all for all” until December 31, 2019, the withdrawal of forces and funds in three new areas in the Donbass, the extension of the law for one year. “On the special procedure for local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and the extension of the mandate of the special OSCE monitoring mission.
The agreements were partially fulfilled, in particular, the exchange of detainees took place on two occasions.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. The Russian Federation does not officially recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Negotiations on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass are taking place in the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE), as well as in the Normandy format, with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia.
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