GENEVA, January 17. /TASS/. Kiev continues to insist on unacceptable conditions for Moscow for the exchange of 12 residents of the Kursk Region held in Sumy, said Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova.
According to her, Kiev sets "the conditions that the Russian side cannot fulfill." Moskalkova said that according to the Geneva Convention, the Kursk Region residents should be returned to their homeland "without any conditions." Kiev wants to exchange the detained Kursk Region residents for "the civilians who are under investigation in Russia, [those who were] charged with committing an offense or a crime against Russia."
"That's why this dialogue has been going on for such a long time, for nine months now," she told Russian journalists after a meeting with head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric.
Moskalkova explained that the residents of the Kursk Region remain hostages of Ukraine, which prohibits them from leaving their temporary accommodations.
"They have neither the documents nor the money to do this," she said. According to her, the ICRC fulfills its obligations to visit and assist the detained Kursk Region residents, but the conditions of their detention prompted Russia to put this issue on the agenda during the meeting with the ICRC.
