Final lists must be approved on December 20. On the same day, the last meeting of the contact group in Minsk will be held this year.
As the newspaper Izvestia reports, referring to its sources, it is about 74 Ukrainian prisoners and 306 fighters.
Recall, December 7, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, discussed with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov the issue of exchange of hostages.
As reported URA-Inform, the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the contact group Irina Gerashchenko said yesterday that the Contact Group in Minsk is conducting additional verification of the prisoners.
This is necessary because of the refusal of detained militants to return to the territory of the occupied Donbass, "she explained..