On June 25, for the first time, representatives of the Russian office of the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova arrived during the exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia. They talked to the Ukrainian ombudsman and checked the conditions of detention of the prisoners.
This was reported by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets and also by Moskalkova, Suspilne reports.
Employees of both offices interviewed the released soldiers from both sides.
Former Russian prisoners of war told about the conditions of detention: food, medical care, the ability to make phone calls to relatives, and correspondence.
Lubinets also noted that the Russian prisoners of war recognized compliance with the Geneva Conventions.
The Ukrainian released defenders, in turn, described their conditions of detention, which do not meet the standards of the Geneva Conventions.
The Russian side has recorded the violations, so I hope that the office of the Russian Ombudsman will make every effort to ensure that the conditions of detention of prisoners of war improve and become in line with the clearly defined Geneva Conventions, — Lubinets said.
In addition, the parties discussed the conditions of detention of civilians and soldiers, exchange of letters, etc.
We exchanged information on possible options for the mutual return of civilians currently held in places of detention, — wrote Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova.
As a reminder, on June 25, another 90 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were returned from Russian captivity. These are soldiers of the National Guard, the Navy, the Special Forces, and border guards. Among them are the defenders of Mariupol, the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, and those who fought in the Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk sectors.
This is the 53rd exchange of prisoners of war since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. A total of 3,300 Ukrainians have been returned to date.
