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Donetsk Says Kiev Holding 1,400 Prisoners, Including 200 Militiamen

© Sputnik / Mikhail Voskresenskiy / Go to the mediabankPrisoner exchange between Donetsk People’s Republic, Luhansk People’s Republic and Ukrainian Armed Forces
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DPR ombudswoman Darya Morozova said that eastern Ukrainian self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic claims that Kiev is holding 1,400 individuals captive.

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DONETSK (Sputnik) The eastern Ukrainian self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic claims that Kiev is holding 1,400 individuals captive, including 200 members of the republic’s militia, DPR ombudswoman Darya Morozova said Tuesday.

“Yesterday, [we made] a list of who is in captivity in Ukraine that is 1,400 people,” Morozova said during a press conference.

The prisoner swap between Kiev forces and independence supporters was one of the provisions of the peace accord agreed by international negotiators in February in Minsk, Belarus.

Other steps to deescalate the conflict in southeastern Ukraine included a February 15 ceasefire, heavy weaponry pullout from the line of contact, as well as granting the breakaway republics broader autonomy.

Subsequently both sides of the armed conflict in Donbas have repeatedly accused each other of violating the Minsk peace agreements.

On Sunday, DPR negotiator Denis Pushilin said that the self-proclaimed republic will suspend the exchange of prisoners with Kiev until working groups are established to ensure that the Minsk agreements are observed.

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