Prisoner swap lists to be discussed in Minsk on Dec 18 – Zelensky

"I would like us to explain in the Normandy Format what the 'all for all' exchange means because we are very afraid of leaving our people there, not only in the temporarily occupied territories and in Crimea, but also in the Russian Federation. That is, now is the first stage before the New Year. We believe there will be an exchange of all identified for all identified. A meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group will be held in Minsk on December 18, and these lists will be discussed," Zelensky said during the Right to Power talk show late on Thursday, December 12.

He added that the second step would be the admission of Red Cross representatives to the occupied territories of Donbas to really confirm the prisoner swap lists between the conflicting sides.

Zelensky also said that, as a third step, he discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin the need to resolve the issue of Ukrainian citizens staying in Russia and Crimea.

"It will be a different track. I think we will talk about it after the exchange of all agreed for all agreed," Zelensky predicted.

On December 9, Paris hosted a Normandy Sour summit for the first time in the past three years. The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France met in the French capital to resume talks on the settlement of the Donbas conflict.

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