Almost 24 thousand citizens of Ukraine are in hostages of the Russian Federation - Ombudsman

According to the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Russian side delayed exchange processes in order to negatively adjust the relatives of prisoners of war to Ukraine as a state. About 24 thousand civilian hostages are now in Russia. On Tuesday, May 23, in his Telegram-channel, Human Rights Commissioner Dmitry Lubinets reported, referring to the data of the Unified Register of missing missing.

Lubinets held a meeting with relatives of prisoners of war and missing people from the military units of the Armed Forces, NSU, SPSU and other formations and Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions in the Dnieper. The Ombudsman told his native missing persons about communication with human rights in Tatiana Moskalkova, Russia's refusal to carry out an exchange of "all on all", repatriate seriously wounded and the return of civilians from Ukraine who were captured.

According to Lubinets, Russians specifically delay the issue of metabolic processes in order to negatively adjust the relatives of prisoners of war to Ukraine as the state. Also, the Commissioner for Human Rights informed the native prisoners of war about another way of verifying the Ukrainian soldiers who are captured by the Russian Federation and spoke about cooperation with the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice.