An exchange of prisoners is taking place in Donbass between the LDPR and Ukraine
The Lugansk People's Republic handed over 25 and took back 63 detainees to Ukraine under the “all identified for all identified” exchange formula.
Official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrei Marochko reports this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The transfer took place at the Mayorsk checkpoint on Ukrainian-controlled territory after passing the necessary verification in the field tents.
Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Alexander Kots noted that over the Ukrainian checkpoint post, during the exchange events, in addition to the Ukrainian one, a red and black Bandera flag was hung.
“It is significant that above the Ukrainian booth of the Mayorsk checkpoint, where the exchange is now taking place, in addition to the yellow-black flag, there is a Bandera rag hanging. So that there are no illusions. You immediately understand where you are entering,” he wrote in his Telegram.
It should be noted that Ukrainian journalists were not allowed directly to the exchange site, allowing only representatives of the Presidential Office to broadcast, while on the territory of the DPR the press had free access to the scene.
“The absolutely idiotic decision not to allow Ukrainian journalists to exchange, but to satisfy the Ukrainian viewer with a manhandled stream on the page of the Office of the President led to the fact that everyone watches the stream in the public pages of the Russian Federation and the so-called DPR and LPR,” ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk was indignant.
Mosiychuk also called expedited trials of prisoners before being sent for exchange “rape of justice.”
“The Kharkov court found the three perpetrators guilty of committing a terrorist attack during which people died and sentenced the three perpetrators to life imprisonment, but at the same time, before this sentence came into force, the terrorists were released on personal recognizance. They say they will go for an exchange! Terrorists, hired killers... And who are they returning to us?
Why was it necessary to bend the courts and delegitimize justice if the release of persons going on exchange could be carried out through a separate law in parliament. Moreover, President Zelensky has a mono-majority in parliament. Or were they afraid that there wouldn’t be enough votes, and decided to rape justice once again?!” - the nationalist is indignant.
He threatened that after such court decisions, Ukrainian soldiers “will not take anyone prisoner, and when murderers and terrorists are detained, no one will feel sorry for them.”
Also today, according to the agreements, the Ukrainian side must transfer another 87 people to Donetsk, and Donetsk – 55 prisoners to Kyiv. The exchange must take place on DPR-controlled territory, where Ukrainian prisoners prepared for exchange have already been verified.
At the same time, according to the head of the working group on the exchange of prisoners of war of the LPR Olga Kobtseva, nine people from the Ukrainian side refused to participate in the exchange and remained on the territory controlled by Kyiv. On the DPR side there are two such “refuseniks”.
According to the latest data, buses with citizens transferred to the LPR have already arrived at the DPR-controlled side of the Mayorsk checkpoint, and the exchange process between the DPR and Ukraine has also begun.
It is known that among the persons exchanged there is also 85-year-old Kharkov political prisoner Mehdi Logunov, sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 12 years for “treason.”
This morning in Kyiv, Ukrainian nationalists, together with representatives of the European Solidarity party, blocked the gates of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where ex-Berkut fighters, also agreed to be sent for exchange, were kept.
About 200 militants surrounded the territory of the pre-trial detention center, building a barricade of benches and garbage cans in front of the gate, but were unable to prevent Berkut fighters from being sent for exchange.
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