Such exchanges are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
Moscow tried to exchange civilian Ukrainians on the Russian military, which is prohibited by the Geneva Convention. Ukraine has refused, Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for Reintegration of Ukraine's Temporarily Occupied Territories, told the BBC. in February”. Ms. Vereshchuk said they were being held hostage. “So they took all these hostages – civilians, women, local council workers – to try to use them,” she said.
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“We know that there are more than a thousand hostages, including almost 500 women… We know that they are in prisons and pre-trial detention centers in Kursk, Bryansk, Ryazan, Rostov.”
Russia has also delayed with the return of women civilians:
“We pull women [captives] almost with forceps. We are currently refusing to exchange without women on the list. In this way, we are trying to somehow save our and [other] civilians. ”
During the last exchange, nine civilians were sent back with serious injuries, including amputations in Russia.
“There were severe injuries in this exchange – amputated limbs, sepsis and other serious injuries,” Ms. Vereshchuk said. “There were clear signs of torture,” she said. .
Earlier we reported that Russia wants to hold a parade of Ukrainian prisoners of war on May 9. Also recently a priest of the PCU from Kherson spoke about torture in the occupation.
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