Lubinets: Russia doesn’t agree to exchange women or wounded in ‘all for all’ format

Russia does not agree to "all for all" exchange even if it concerns only one category, for example, women or the wounded.

“The issue of exchanging all Ukrainian POWs for all Russian ones is constantly discussed with the Russian side, and the Ukrainian authorities try to find arguments and options every day. However, the Russian Federation does not agree to any,” Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, posted on Facebook.

"If such an exchange depended only on the Ukrainian side, we would have done it a long time ago. One of the initiatives was a proposal to exchange all for all of the same category. For example, women or wounded. After all, according to the Geneva Conventions, there is a certain priority – women prisoners of war are returned first, then the wounded. But Russia does not accept these proposals either," he added.

Lubinets stressed that while thousands of Ukrainians, both military and civilians, remain in Russian captivity, Ukraine will keep trying and finding solutions to release them.