ICRC: Thirty-eight people released within today’s release and transfer operation

ICRC: Thirty-eight people released within today’s release and transfer operation

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Another 38 people have been released, and 34 of them transferred, as a result of the release and transfer operation today.

“This has been the fourth release and transfer operation since the beginning of the conflict that the ICRC has participated to in its role of neutral intermediary. Today, another 38 people have been released, and 34 of them transferred, some of them after six years of detention. Their willingness to whether they wanted to go for transfer has been respected,” the press service of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine reports.

The ICRC states that its representatives participated in the operation of simultaneous transfer and release of detainees “with the main aim to confirm through a neutral actor that the detainees were willing to be transferred, and that the operation takes place in line with international humanitarian standards.”

As noted, these operations of release and transfer of detainees have a hefty humanitarian value.

 “They bring people back to their families on both sides of the contact line. It shows that even in the conflict, against the hardest and the most challenging of times, humanity can prevail. And it is this very notion of humanity in time of conflict that the ICRC has been promoting around the world for 157 years,” the organization underscores.

At the same time, the ICRC stressed that in time of novel coronavirus threat, consequent preventive measures had to be taken and assured that the operation had been completed smoothly, and the detainees would be soon on their way home, after all necessary precautions related to COVID19 outbreak had been taken.

“They will be able to see their families in the near future, which is all the more important during this pandemic,” the statement reads.

As reported, Ukraine returned 20 citizens, who had been held captive in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, during the next stage of mutual release of detained persons held today.

Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak informed that the negotiations on the release of Ukrainians held in Russia-occupied Crimea and in Russia were ongoing.

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