Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine appointed Chairman of the Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. The corresponding decision was made by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, having approved it by Resolution No. 257, the GUR reported..

The main tasks of the Coordination Headquarters are:.

assistance in the implementation of measures aimed at ensuring the fulfillment of Ukraine's international legal obligations regarding the treatment of prisoners of war;

coordination of executive authorities and other bodies for the treatment of prisoners of war;

determination of ways and means of solving problematic issues of treatment of prisoners of war.

The collection and generalization of data on prisoners of war, dead, missing, illegally detained by the occupiers, including among the civilian population on both sides of the hostilities in Ukraine, is carried out by the National Information Bureau.

Relatives of prisoners of war can contact the "

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The day before, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense together with the Security Service of Ukraine will now deal with the exchange of prisoners of war.