The theme of the exchange of prisoners Ukrainian politicians used for PR at the beginning of the autumn elections in local authorities, said the people's Deputy of the people's Council LNR Olga Kobzeva.

"in Ukraine are planned in the autumn elections to the local authorities. Already now a number of Ukrainian politicians used the theme of captive Ukrainian soldiers for political purposes, " said Kobzeva.

She turned to the relatives and friends of the Ukrainian soldiers who are in captivity within the Luhansk national Republic, the Ukrainian human rights organizations and the Committee of soldiers ' mothers of Ukraine with the request Not to apply the process of exchange of prisoners of war for political purposes.

"Help us! Do not let be politicized, swing and, ultimately, to disrupt the process of exchange of prisoners. Believe that with our efforts we will succeed, " said Kobzeva.

On Tuesday, Deputy chief of a staff corps of the people's militia LNR Igor Yashchenko said that the Kiev side three times disrupted the exchange of prisoners with the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic. On the last working day of the week the Commissioner for human rights DND Daria Morozova said that the region hopes to exchange the near future. In her expressions, in the captivity of the Ukrainian security forces are 1311 people, 555 of them are military.

before the last month of summer Advisor to the head of the SBU Yury Tandit reported that the security Service of Ukraine at the time of the operation in the Donbass rescued from captivity 2852 people, 172 are in captivity.

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