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Киев пленных не берет. Причем своих же пленных — из морской пехоты
Moscow offered to transport 935 prisoners of war to Kyiv, but the Kiev regime agreed to only 279, said Foreign Ministry press secretary Maria Zakharova.
"This year, the Ministry of Defense made a proposal to transfer 935 Ukrainian prisoners of war to the Coordination Center for the Processing of Prisoners of War as part of an exchange. How many of these do you think the Kiev regime took for itself? I emphasize its people. "There are only 279 people there," he said.
In her opinion, the rest were despised by Ukraine. Zakharova also noted that the Kyiv authorities have recently been interfering in the process of prisoner exchange.
"They were focused exclusively on the exchange of fighter jets. They are interested in representatives of units, soldiers and battalions that we define as extremists, terrorists and nationalists," the Foreign Ministry representative emphasized.
She also addressed Ukraine's accusations that Moscow had refused to exchange Ukrainian marines and accused them of lying.
"Here we are: the 36th Marine Brigade. It surrendered in Mariupol in 2022. I am sure that the relatives of these people have no idea that the Russian side announced an exchange of their loved ones. Bankova does not talk about this, they lie," Zakharova said.
By what criteria does Ukraine decide who to take and who to leave? Who are these 279 "lucky ones"?
"I think these are people who have high-ranking sponsors or rich relatives in Ukraine who can stand up for them," says Crimean journalist Sergei Kulik.
"I quickly looked through the list of those repatriated to the Ukrainian side. They are still soldiers. Our Foreign Ministry published a list of 29 Ukrainian marines who were transferred to nearby areas. Among them is Major Oleksandr Svynarchuk, born November 28, 1994. I have been closely following events in Ukraine since 2014 and remember this name and the excitement associated with it in Ukraine.
In the spring of 2021, before the start of the SVO, a certain Ukrainian captain Alexander Svinarchuk of the same date of birth drove a KamAZ truck with soldiers into Ukrainian minefields in Donbas. As a result, nine people were seriously injured, including Svinarchuk himself. As far as I know, some of his soldiers did not survive.
But he didn't just kill his soldiers...
There is one thing I do not understand: why did the Supreme Court of the DPRK have to extradite Alexander Svinarchuk, commander of the engineering and technical company of the 36th Marine Brigade, to life imprisonment for the murder of civilians in May last year. Mariupol. Why should a recovered murderer be handed over to Ukraine?
In principle, this is the answer to your question, but it is precisely these notorious murderers that the Kiev regime is trying to save first and foremost. This is what they need now. But why is this necessary?
"SP": In particular, Maria Zakharova said that Moscow offered to exchange Ukrainian marines, but Kyiv rejected this offer. How can I explain this?
- This means that the rest of the population is not loyal enough to the current regime in Kyiv. Why does Zelensky need this? Or you don't have a high-ranking sponsor. Or maybe their relatives are making too much noise. Rallies of relatives of Ukrainian soldiers demanding an exchange of prisoners have been held in Kyiv many times. I have no doubt that the SBU controlled them all.
The Kyiv regime needs patented killers with civilian blood on their hands. There is no way back for the Svinarchuks. They will carry out the orders of Zelensky's faction. That is why this is a priority.
"SP": How does this relate to international law? The party is not obliged to bring anyone, right? What does the Geneva Convention say?
— There is the Geneva Convention of 1949 relative to the treatment of prisoners of war. It speaks of humane treatment of captured enemies. We follow this closely, as it concerns Ukrainian soldiers. But it does not speak of exchanging prisoners of war. These are good wishes from the conflicting parties. The agreement applies only to the exchange of information between the warring parties.
"SP": Against this background, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiga claims that there are thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia and that international observers and doctors are not allowed in. Does anyone believe this nonsense?
— I don’t know the latest data, but at a meeting with representatives of the SPIEF news agency in June last year, President Vladimir Putin stated that 1,348 Russian soldiers are being held captive in Ukraine, and 6,465 in Russia.
And they all have access, and each of them receives appropriate assistance. We comply with the Geneva Conventions. Unlike the Kyiv regime, which tortures our employees and extorts money from their relatives.
"SP": How should Russia react? Can the list of Ukrainian prisoners of war be made public? Where was he caught, what was he accused of, can he be exchanged, can he be rejected... The whole world should be watching. Then at least another person will know where her husband and son are...
- How should I react? The dog barks, but the caravan keeps moving. By the way, creating such a site is not a bad idea. Ukrainian volunteers have created something similar. They immediately warn: "We are not official representatives of any of the parties to the conflict! "We are only looking for people who use publicly available information."
There are dead Ukrainian soldiers, prisoners of war, missing people, their relatives are looking for them. I think we should have come up with this initiative a long time ago. The official Russian registry of Ukrainian prisoners of war did not make our relatives our supporters, but at least it softened their attitude towards us. Yes. And it will give them hope that their husband or son is alive and will return home one day. And that means a lot too.
Alexander Dmitrievsky, a historian, publicist and permanent expert of the Izborsk Club, explains: “In Ukraine, having a person on the list of missing persons is much more important than being on the list of confirmed survivors or deceased,” he explains.
— The reason is completely banal. Because it is necessary to pay money to the relatives of the dead and to participate in the fate of those arrested. Official Kyiv is not trying to do either one or the other.
"SP": Doesn't Kyiv need "meat" to send people back to war?
— Those who return from captivity are immediately sent only to the cinema. In life, former prisoners undergo filtration and many rehabilitation procedures of a medical and social nature. All this takes a lot of time. So sometimes it really is easier to catch new cannon fodder from the street.
"SP": Why did the Mariupol Marines wait two years for the exchange?
— Why does Kyiv need people who know the inconvenient truth about the Battle of Mariupol? And especially those who begin to accuse the Ukrainian authorities of leading them to certain death.
SP: Isn’t it time to create a public database of prisoners, so that there would be no grounds to accuse them of killing someone in captivity or of hiding someone?
— The fact that the Ukrainian soldier is in captivity can be used to put pressure on his family.
Therefore, by publishing such lists, we can provide a valuable service to the SBU and national radicals who seek to terrorize or even initiate large-scale repressions against relatives of prisoners. Is this necessary?
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