Planned vigor's exchange between Russia and Ukraine in the crisis
Planned vigor's exchange between Russia and Ukraine in the crisis
A planned exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war did not take place on Saturday. Russia accused Kiev of having postponed the exchange at the last minute, which Ukrainian officials rejected as "dirty games" of the Kremlin.
the incident and the allegations
Russia stated that Ukraine unexpectedly postponed a transfer of prisoners of war and the body of fallen soldiers. As a result, over 1,200 frozen Ukrainian corpses in refrigerated vehicles waited at an exchange point without someone being able to pick them up.
Ukrainian reaction
Ukraine rejected the representation of Russia and explained that both sides had agreed on the exchange of seriously injured and young soldiers on Saturday, but had not been set for the return of the soldier's body.
peace talks in Istanbul
During a second round of direct peace
"In strict agreement with the Agreements of Istanbul, the Russian side has started a humanitarian operation to convict more than 6,000 corpses of fallen Ukrainian soldiers and seriously injured soldiers under the age of 25," said Medinsky on Telegram on Saturday afternoon. He claimed that there were 1,212 corner of fallen Ukrainian soldiers at the exchange point, while the remaining "on the way" were located. He also stated that Russia had made the first list of 640 prisoners of war available to be listed as "injured, seriously ill and young people" to start the exchange. In a video published by Russia's Ministry of Defense on Telegram, two men can be seen in protective suits that open the doors of a truck that Parks on the roadside. In the truck there were dozens of sealed white sacks, of which the ministry stated that they contained the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers. Medinsky said that the contact group of the Russian Ministry of Defense was waiting for the exchange on the border with Ukraine, but accused Kiev of "unexpectedly postponing the corpse and the exchange of prisoners of war", and named "rather strange reasons" for it. Ukraine immediately rejected the allegations and said that Medinsky's claims "do not correspond to reality". The exchange of prisoners of war and soldier bodies are separate processes. "Unfortunately, instead of a constructive dialogue, we are confronted with manipulations and the attempt to use sensitive humanitarian topics for information purposes", wrote the Ukrainian coordination center for the treatment of prisoners of war on Telegram. "We ask the Russian side to stop playing with dirty games," added. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense stated that Russia was building "artificial obstacles" and "false statements" to hinder the exchange of living prisoners and not to adhere to the agreements made in Istanbul. "The Ukrainian side is once again faced with an attempt to break the agreements afterwards," said the Ministry. Although the exchange of prisoners of war was a rare point of unity between the warfare countries, the failure of the exchange planned for Saturday underlines the lack of trust that the peace talks so far overshadowed. The dispute arose shortly after Russia started another air attack on Ukraine in the city Charkiw died. Details of the planned exchange
manipulations and misunderstandings
call for constructive cooperation
a breach of trust in the peace talks
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