DONETSK. Aug 4 (Interfax) - There are 42 Ukrainian prisoners-of-war in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), its ombudsman Darya Morozova said.
"We worked thoroughly through the list of 109 people submitted by the Ukrainian side. I hereby state officially that 42 Ukrainian troops have been captured in the republic. All of them are ready for a prisoner exchange in the format spelt out in the Package of Measures to implement the Minsk agreements," she told journalists on Thursday.
"I will note that Ukraine's representatives in Minsk have confirmed just 618 people out of the 964 named in our list. Everything now depends on the political will of the Ukrainian president and his authorized representatives at Minsk meetings," Morozova said, adding that the DPR repeatedly proposed Ukrainian negotiators to devise a roadmap to search for missing people.