20 prisoners wishing to serve sentences in Ukraine passed to Kiev, DPR ombudswoman office confirms

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Donetsk, Feb 7 - DAN. Twenty prisoners who said they wanted to serve out their sentences in Ukraine were handed over to Kiev on Wednesday, the DPR ombudswoman’s office said.

“On 7 February, 20 prisoners who wish to continue serving their sentences in Ukrainian prisons were passed to Kiev,” the ombudswoman’s office said in a statement.

The handover took place pursuant to DPR head Alexander Zakharchenko’s decree. It passed without incidents, it said.

DPR’s prisoner handover was reported by Ukrainian ombudswoman Valeria Lutkovskaya's website earlier in the day. *jk