The day before Monday, Turkish official Seref Malkots said that the Ukrainian side handed over to Russia a list of 800 prisoners of war that it wants to exchange for 200 that the other side proposed.
Russia’s human rights commissioner, Tatyana Maskalkova, said on Tuesday that she did not discuss last week in Turkey with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets the possibility that the two sides would proceed with the exchange of hundreds of prisoners.
The day before Monday, Turkish official Seref Malkots said that the Ukrainian side handed over to Russia a list of 800 prisoners of war that it wants to exchange for 200 that the other side proposed.
But Mrs. Maskalkova reported yesterday via Telegram that “in my negotiations (…) with Dmytro Lubinets in Ankara there was never any discussion about exchanges and I always emphasize that these issues fall under the competence of the (Russian) Ministry of Defense”.
“Furthermore, I believe such an unequal exchange would not be fair,” he added.
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