Donetsk, Dec 15 - DAN. The work of the Minsk humanitarian subgroup in 2020 was the least productive through Ukraine’s fault in all the five years of talks, Donetsk People’s Republic representative in the subgroup, DPR ombduswoman Darya Morozova said on Tuesday.
“I have to acknowledge that the results of work this year are probably the most negligible in all the five years of our negotiations,” Morozova said. “Consequently, to avoid the same “results” next year, I urge Ukraine to stop the attempts to dart between their promises and the race for ratings with bombastic headlines in the media. The only result of such practice today is the people who cannot return home and celebrate the holiday with their relatives.”
During this year, Ukraine did absolutely nothing to complete the prisoner exchanges which took place in December 2019 and April 2020. (Earlier, Morozova said that the exchange would be regarded as completed after the procedure to drop criminal charges against former detainees had been carried through).
“Consequently, Ukraine bears sole and full responsibility for derailing the potential exchange under the “all verified for all verified” formula which could have taken place in the outgoing year. Kiev has shown that it does not intend to meet its commitments and that it is not interested in new exchanges,” the ombduswoman said.
Ukraine and the Donbass Republics last exchanged prisoners on April 16, 2020. Donetsk handed over nine people to Kiev and got ten. The DPR dropped charges against all the persons handed over to Ukraine. The latter has not met the similar commitment with respect to the released people.*jk