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First Deputy Speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and Ukraine’s envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group’s humanitarian subgroup in Minsk Iryna Gerashchenko says that Ukraine is ready to exchange 313 people from Ukrainian prisons for 88 Ukrainian hostages in Russian-occupied Donbas.

“Ukraine proposes an immediate exchange. We’ve managed to locate the whereabouts of 88 of our 144 hostages on the list. And for their release, we’re ready to hand 313 people who could be released under Ukrainian laws, over to the self-proclaimed republics in Donbas to free the Ukrainians,” she said at a briefing in parliament on Sept. 21.

As was reported, Ukrainian members from the humanitarian subgroup in Minsk in Belarus on Sept. 20 shared their vision with representatives of the Donbas separatists as for the conditions for the release of hostages. They are now waiting for the feedback, said Darka Olifer, the press secretary of second president of independent Ukraine and Ukrainian envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kuchma.

According to earlier reports, Ukraine was ready to extradite 309 people at the request of the self-proclaimed republics in exchange for 87 Ukrainians held hostage in occupied Donbas.