DPR authorities ready for captives exchange in 'all for all' format
MOSCOW. Nov 2 (Interfax) - The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) are ready to carry out the exchange of captives in the format prescribed by the Minsk Agreements, the DPR Commissioner for Human Rights Darya Morozova told the Donetsk News Agency.
"We are ready to carry out the captives exchange in the format, which is described in the complex of measures of implementation of the Minsk Agreements. Specifically, under the 'all for all' formula," she told the news agency.
Boris Gryzlov, Russia's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the Donbas conflict, said on September 21 that in accordance with the 'all for all' formula of the Minsk Agreements the Ukrainian side must release 618 people being held captive and Donetsk and Luhansk 47.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) head Vasyl Hrytsak said on Wednesday that Ukraine is ready for unequal exchange to release the Ukrainian captives. "As of the time when the next exchange takes place, I am not going to waste my breath and name any dates or numbers. But we have already reached the point where we are ready to give three for one, if only they return our boys to us," he told reporters in Kramatorsk on Wednesday.
Hrytsak said 109 Ukrainian citizens are currently being held captive. He said that Ukraine is aware of the specific location of 57 of them. "The DPR/LPR representatives in Minsk tentatively confirmed that they are indeed holding 47 people. Another 494 people are still considered missing," the SBU head said.
Hrytsak said that the lists of the captives for the exchange were prepared and handed over to the opposing side repeatedly.