Ukrainian Security Service ready for 'all for all' prisoner exchange, says ten captives can't be transferred
The Ukrainian Security Service is ready to exchange "all for all" prisoners in the anti-terrorist operation in the east, but states that the ten most dangerous criminals cannot be transferred.
"We are looking forward to the Minsk meeting. Everything will be clear after the Minsk meeting is held. We want to exchange 'all for all' prisoners. Terrorists must release all of our illegally held persons. We have counted 684 of them," Ukrainian Security Service main investigative department head Vasyl Vovk said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
The Ukrainian Security Service is ready to make a procedural decision and release all the "associates of terrorists" but "those whose hands are stained with blood will not be released now."
According to Vovk, Ukrainian citizen Anastasia Kovalenko apprehended in Kyiv on suspicion of preparing a terror attack in Kyiv belonged to that number. "I think that lady will be the eleventh [prisoner to be held by Kyiv]," Vovk said.
As reported earlier, the Ukrainian Security Service has prevented a terror attack. A Ukrainian national, Luhansk resident Kovalenko, was carrying a bomb in her bag in an area between the Ivan Franko Theater and Independence Square on December 17. A criminal inquiry was launched on a count of attempting to commit a terrorist attack and the Kyiv Shevchenkivsky District Court would issue a warrant for the woman's arrest on Friday.