The exchange of prisoners between the Ukrainian security forces and the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic ended, the militia passed twelve, the Exchange will continue on Thursday, said the Ministry of defence DND.
"We got our tomorrow will give Ukraine their prisoners", - has declared the Commissioner of the Department. According to his statement, " the transfer of prisoners to the Ukrainian party will be held tomorrow at the same place at the same time." The story is about the territory between the village of Aleksandrovka and Marinka (suburbs of Donetsk), reports " Donetsk news Agency ".
on Wednesday close to neutral territory between Maryinka and Donetsk, where, by consent of the Donetsk national Republic and Kiev, to complete the Exchange of prisoners by the formula " 12 on 12 ", the shooting began. It was declared that from-for attack the Exchange of prisoners for the time suspended. On August 18, 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 proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic. August 7, Donetsk and Lugansk people's Republic handed over the list of prisoners the official representative of Kiev Viktor Medvedchuk. August 5, cooperating with the Ukrainian security service volunteer Yury Tandit stated that the SBU is in the process of negotiations in Minsk as if he had been transferred to the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics with a list of 183 Ukrainian prisoners. In mid-June, the Commissioner of Ukraine in the sub-working group on humanitarian issues of the contact group Irina Gerashchenko reported that in captivity militias Donetsk and Lugansk national republics remain about 270 Ukrainian soldiers. Prior to this, the representative for human rights DND Daria Morozova reported that the number of prisoners held by the Ukrainian security forces, reached 1, 5 thousand People. In her expressions, only 250 people of this number are members of the militia, the remaining ? civilians. However, she stressed that the DNR gave the Kiev all the prisoners.

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