Ukraine refused to hand over persecuted Berkut members to the DPR
Ukraine will not agree to include in an exchange for the purpose of releasing Ukrainian prisoners of war former security forces from the Berkut special forces unit, suspected by the current government of killing Euromaidan militants.
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This was stated by a participant in the Minsk negotiations, first deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko on Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We will not accept blackmail and cannot release those who are not subject to the Minsk agreements, for example, Berkut members who are suspected of killing the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred. “I called on the OSCE coordinator to visit the trial, which is now starting, to communicate with the families of the victims and to them... to voice these initiatives of ORDLO, which the coordinator “neutrally” supports... We will never agree to this,” she said.
Let us remind you that on November 15, a meeting of the contact group on Donbass took place. Following the meeting, representatives of the DPR accused Kyiv of deliberately sabotaging the Minsk agreements, as reported by PolitNavigator with reference to the acting. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPR Natalya Nikanorova.
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