The First Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group, Irina Gerashchenko, appointed the next meeting of all those who are involved in this process. The meeting will discuss the new process of possible transfer and prepare documents.

This was announced by Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Denis Chernyshov. According to him, this is a very big work and a big process, which involves a lot of both state institutions and public institutions that take part in all this work.

Recall that during the December 27 exchange, 74 illegally detained Ukrainians were released. The other party received 233 persons. This is the largest exchange of held persons between the parties since 2015.

As reported URA-Inform, Deputy Minister for Temporary Occupied Territories and internally displaced persons Georgy Tuka, the next exchange of prisoners in the Donbass may take place in January-February. At the moment, in the territory of Lugansk region, 1,407 Ukrainian citizens who live there are not under Ukrainian control, he said..