ORLO includes Russian military Ageyev in swap list; Kyiv considers him to be criminal

15:40, 31.07.2017 1 min read

Representatives of separate districts of the Luhansk region (ORLO) have included Russian military serviceman Victor Ageyev in the hostage swap list who was detained by the Ukrainian side in the Luhansk region, but Kyiv insists that he is a war criminal, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group Iryna Gerashchenko has said.

"ORDLO included Russian serviceman Ageyev in their demands for the release claiming he is a militant. Here Ukraine's position is unambiguous - it's a war criminal. We expect the Russian government will recognize his presence in Ukraine and the court must determine the measure of his crimes. The world must know the details of the crime since these are the facts of the Russian military presence in Donbas," she wrote on her Facebook page on Monday following the Skype conference of the humanitarian subgroup Trilateral Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas.