Militants Transferred Captives to Prison, Threat Them with 30-Year Incarceration

Ukrainian citizens captured by the militants in Donbas were transferred to the pre-trial detention center (SIZO). They are threatened with 30-year imprisonment, Iryna Herashchenko, First Vice Deputy Chairwoman of Parliament and Ukraine’s representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group, reported on her Facebook page on July 24.

"In April, when the ORDLO militants deceived everyone and refused to live up to the promise to release captives before Easter, moms and wives of the captives wrote the letters to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow requesting him to help in releasing them. As we see, these letters gained no feedback – the captives are still under custody, and their condition is even worse – they were transferred to SIZO and threatened with 30-year incarceration," she explained.

On July 19, Herashchenko reported that the ORDLO militants had refused to release 25 Ukrainian hostages in exchange for 50 people held by the Ukrainian side. They requested an ‘all for all exchange,’ having sent a list of 600 people whom the Government allegedly detained. Ukrainian side currently "doesn’t know who these people are and where they are," Herashchenko stressed.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda