Militants in southeastern Ukraine have been disrupting Kyiv's prisoner-exchange initiatives recently, says Andriy Lysenko, a military operation spokesman in the Ukrainian presidential administration.
“All efforts by the Ukrainian authorities, the military and volunteers have been in vain: the enemy is being uncooperative. That there is no massive prisoner exchange is their fault,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on July 6.
Ukraine has been taking such an initiative over the past month and a half, but there has been no reaction, he said.
“For various reasons, this side keeps disrupting such swaps, even though we are prepared for these,” he said.
