The Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation has handed over to Ukraine 12 prisoners serving sentences in penitentiary institutions in the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea of the Russian Federation, Mykhailo Chaplyha, representative of the Office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, has said.

"The transfer of 12 POWs from Crimea has started," Chaplyha wrote on his Facebook page on Friday afternoon.