OSCE Announces Agreement on Another Ukraine-Donbas Prisoner Swap

Dec. 24, 2019 (EIRNS)—Martin Sajdik, the OSCE special representative in Ukraine, announced in a statement yesterday that the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) has agreed on a prisoner swap. “During today’s videoconference, the Trilateral Contact Group, with participation of representatives of certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, reached an agreement on a mutual release and exchange of conflict-related detainees by the end of the year,” he said, reported TASS.

The OSCE was confirmed by representatives of both the Kiev government and of the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk republics. Rodion Miroshnik, the Luhansk envoy on the political subgroup of the TCG told Izvestia that key to the outcome of the Dec. 23 meeting was that Ukraine had agreed to clear those on the exchange list of any criminal charges.