LNR and Kiev have completed the exchange of prisoners

LUHANSK, 16 APR – RIA Novosti. The self-proclaimed Luhansk national Republic and Kiev have completed the exchange of prisoners in the Donbass, he passed on the formula “11 to 4”, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.

“Only that there was an exchange. We passed 11 people. The survey of persons who were to be transferred to LC, three people expressed their willingness to remain in the territory of Ukraine”, – told reporters the head of the working group on exchange of prisoners LC Olga Kobzeva. Thus, on the territory of the LC profit four persons, previously held in Kiev.

Earlier Thursday, also held this year’s first exchange of prisoners between Kiev and self-proclaimed DND. Kiev gave Donetsk ten detained persons, Donetsk gave Kiev the side of nine people.

the Ukrainian Authorities in April 2014 began a military operation against the breakaway LC and the DNI, which declared independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN victims of the conflict began more than 13 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, in particular, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which from September 2014 adopted three documents regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. However, after the armistice agreements between the parties to the conflict continue shooting.