Donetsk and Lugansk
are set to hand over 55 persons to Kiev and expect to receive 87 people.
GORLOVKA, December
29. /TASS/. The first prisoner swap over the past two years has started between
the self-proclaimed Donbass republics and Kiev near Gorlovka, Donetsk People’s
Republic (DPR) ombudswoman Darya Morozova announced on Sunday.
"The swap has
started," Morozova said.
The prisoner swap is
taking place at the Gorlovka-Mayorskoye point of entry/exit on the line of
contact between the Donetsk People’s Republic and Ukraine.
As the ombudswoman
said, the persons held in custody in the DPR as a result of the armed conflict
and subject to the swap had set off for the so-called grey zone - the territory
between the positions of the conflicting parties - to finalize the exchange
procedure.
Donetsk and Lugansk
are set to hand over 55 persons to Kiev and expect to receive 87 people,
Morozova said on Saturday.
Source: ITAR-TASS
29-12-2019
