Twenty Ukrainian prisoners brought home from Donbas

14:05, 07.02.2018 1 min read

On Wednesday afternoon, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Valeriya Lutkovska took home another 20 people incarcerated before the beginning of the Donbas conflict, the head of the commissioner's secretariat, Bohdan Kryklyvenko, wrote on Facebook.

"At 12 p.m. today, February 7, 2018, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Valeriya Lutkovska took home another 20 persons incarcerated before the conflict," Kryklyvenko said.

He said the transfer was monitored by a member of the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee, Iryna Suslova, and members of the OSCE mission.

A total of 186 people have returned home from the territories of the Donetsk region uncontrolled by Kyiv over more than two years, Kryklyvenko said.