Militants Threaten Ukrainian Hostages With 30-Year Incarceration
Ukrainian citizens captured by militants in Donbas have been transferred to a pre-trial detention center. They are threatened with 30-year imprisonment, Iryna Herashchenko, First Vice Deputy Chairwoman of the 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 their promise to release captives before Easter, moms and wives of the captives wrote 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 in custody, and their condition is even worse – they were transferred to pre-trial detention 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 demanded an ‘all for all exchange,’ having sent a list of 600 people whom the Government allegedly detained. The Ukrainian side currently "doesn’t know who these people are and where they are," Herashchenko stressed.
Source: Ukrayinska Pravda
