Lugansk Rebels Will Release Ukrainian Prisoners
06 de enero de 2016, 10:05Kyiv, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the insurgent People”s Republic of Lugansk (PRL), Igor Plonitski, ordered freeing the Ukrainian military kept prisoners in that territory, as confirmed today by the press service of the rebel leader, without specifying figures.
The source noted that in honor of the Orthodox Christmas (January 7th), Plotnitski approved the release of those who were taken prisoner while participating in the punitive operation ordered by Kyiv against the population of the PRL, since April 2014.
In Kyiv, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Yuri Tandit, spoke of the willingness of picking up his imprisoned troops any time, but said that so far no notification has been received by the insurgents.
He also reported that the repressive body knows the location of 57 out of the 140 military reported as made prisoners in rebel territories.
Referring to this issue, Daria Morozova, ombudsman of the insurgent Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said that for the moment “no unilateral release of prisoners has been discussed”.
Speaking to the site Ukraina.ru, Morozova reported that Kyiv violates the provisions of the agreements of Minsk of February 12th, 2015, whose text states that it is necessary to secure the release and exchange of all hostages and illegal detainees on the principle of ‘all for all’.
Ukraina.ru clarifies that so far the Supreme Rada (Ukrainian unicameral Parliament) did not approve an amnesty law because it does not consider illegal the arrest of militia it keeps imprisoned, and in those circumstances the DPR will not fulfill its part unilaterally.
Morozova believes there is no political will to solve this problem on the part of the rulers come to power in Kyiv after the coup of February 22nd, 2014.
Ukraine implies that we have many more prisoners than we actually have, and secondly, they deliver soldiers to them, and they give us civilians and political prisoners, that’s a big difference, said the Ombudsman. Just so you understand better, she said, if we consider the list for the last exchange “10 for 6”, out of those 10, four were to be released according to the decision of the courts of Ukraine, who had declared them not guilty, and had them released.
However, Morozova denounced, as they left the room, an unmarked Gazelle vehicle ‘of course belonging to the SBU’ drove up to them, ‘they had bags put over their heads, and were taken away to an unknown destination.’
The SBU detains and imprisons these people in undiclosed locations, in basements in special places, concluded the DPR Ombudsman, clarifying that they are not militia, but ‘suspects’.
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