““These days I will work in Turkey and the Middle East in order to unblock the exchange process. There was an agreement – and it must be implemented””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“These days I will work in Turkey and the Middle East in order to unblock the exchange process. There was an agreement – and it must be implemented,” he wrote on social networks.
According to Umerov, in particular, he will have meetings in Turkey regarding the resumption of exchanges. With whom exactly these meetings are planned, the secretary of the NSDC did not specify.
According to data provided in October by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, since the full-scale invasion of Russia, 69 exchanges have been carried out, as a result of which 6,235 Ukrainian citizens were returned from captivity.
On June 2, the delegations of Ukraine and the Russian Federation agreed in Istanbul on new prisoner exchanges. As the head of the Ukrainian delegation at the negotiations, Rustem Umyerov, said at the time, there is an agreement to focus on specific categories, and not on numbers: on the exchange of “all for all” severely wounded and seriously ill prisoners of war, the second category is young soldiers aged 18 to 25. There was also an agreement on the return of 6,000 bodies of fallen soldiers.