Vladimir Medinskiy, the consultant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, continued the exchange of the war prisoners with the Ukrainian side and said that they agreed to make another swap on both sides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s adviser Medinskiy and Deputy Foreign Minister Mihail Galuzin, hosted by Türkiye in Istanbul held in Istanbul-Russia-Ukraine Triple Meeting at a press conference.
Medinskiy noted that they have completed the third round of the negotiations, recently all the agreements on humanitarian issues have been implemented, Ukraine-Lalarus line of approximately 250 soldiers completed the exchange, he said.
Medinskiy, this is the last of the great captive exchange of approximately 1200 people, expressing that they have completed the change of those who lost their lives in the war.
Medinskiy said that they had given their bodies back to the Ukrainian side because the body of a deceased soldier had to be buried in his homeland, but said that they had taken back the body of less Russian citizens.
At this meeting, Medinskiy shared the proposals they made to Ukraine and quoted the following:
“First of all, we have decided to establish three working groups that will work online to protect the money of its resources and taxpayers.
Stating that the Ukrainian side agreed to evaluate this proposal, Medinskiy said, “The second proposal presented to them was the declaration of 24-48 hours of ceasefire on the facade line in order to get the funerals of health and medical teams.” he said.
Medinskiy, unmanned aerial vehicles in the region due to the current situation in the gray regions of the situation poses a great risk for health teams, emphasizing that every life is valuable, he said.
Medinskiy, the consultant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said, ında By continuing the exchange of prisoners of war, we agreed to make another swap on both sides. I will not hide it, we proposed a greater number to the Ukraine side. If they find a similar number on their own sides, the numbers will be higher. ” He said.
Stating that there are some technical problems such as refrigerators and transportation on the Ukrainian side, Medinskiy said, “However, we offered to send 3000 more bodies to the Ukrainian side.” he said.
Russia will deliver the funerals of Ukrainian soldiers with the Red Cross Medinsky said that those who died by Ukraine would deliver their funerals to the Ukrainian side with the participation of the Red Cross to be buried according to the Christian tradition.
Medinsky said that they also talked about the return of civilians who were displaced due to conflicts and that they would continue to exchange the dead and wounded on the front line indefinitely and continued:
“Unfortunately, we have learned that a article of our agreement has not been fulfilled. They were sent back to their regions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (some prisoners). If you need to be honest, I do not understand why such a thing.
Medinsky emphasized that they agreed to maintain their contacts with Ukrainian delegations both at the level of delegations and at the level of new working groups and said:
“Finally, I would like to talk about tens of thousands of children allegedly kidnapped from Ukraine. We have examined the names of the children’s names, that is, the names of 329 children. We are working on others.
“In order for the leaders to meet, we need to reach an agreement first” Medinskiy said that if the parents or legal representatives of Ukrainian children are found, children will be delivered and that all of them are preserved.
Answering the question about whether the issue of the Leaders Meeting is on the agenda, Medinskiy said, “We need to reach an agreement first to meet (leaders) to meet. Because a meeting must have a specific agenda. The meeting must be the end of something, not the beginning. For this reason, we need to complete this process.” He said.
Medinskiy, Ukraine allegedly kidnapped 329 Ukrainian child on the question of how many returned, Russia, delivered in the last negotiating round of the Ukrainian children completed the work, the Ukrainian list of many children in the land of Russia, he added.
Deputy Minister Galuzin said that they brought up the Russian children in Ukraine and taken to European countries at the meeting and delivered a list of 20 children and representatives to the Ukraine side.
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