Interfax: “DPR again suspends POW swap with Ukraine”

MOSCOW. Oct 7 (Interfax) – Prisoner exchanges between the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Kyiv authorities have been suspended for now, DPR POW Committee Chairperson Darya Morozova has told Interfax.

“The exchanges have been suspended until the Ukrainian side draws up and presents identification documents of the persons pending exchange in Kharkiv. We reject the practice in which people are transferred without identification documents,” Morozova said.

She claimed that the Ukrainian side had been unscrupulous in prisoner exchanges.

“In fact, they give us the prisoners but detectives keep their identification documents and they are immediately put on the most wanted list. They are actually not released and unable to leave Donbas. A whole bunch of agreements, including the amnesty, are violated by doing so,” Morozova emphasized.