The exchange of prisoners in the format of "all for all" is promised by the President of Ukraine Zelensky. Until the new Year. If he does this, honor and praise be to him. And it will be counted. But for some reason I can’t believe that he will keep his promise.

Just, let's say you are forced to interact with a certain company. She sells you, for example, valuable Maine Coon seals. You agree, set the price.

On the day of the sale, the company declares that the conditions have changed and, for example, not one hundred cats, but eighty will sell you for the price you set. And so time after time, and to guess how exactly this company will change the conditions is practically impossible, however, it always changes them. There are always fewer cats selling you than the agreed number. You pay the originally agreed price.

There is no alternative, so you have to interact with this company, however, some doubts about its honesty creep in, is not it?

And if the director of the company changes, you are unlikely to jump for joy and believe that from now on you will conduct an honest bargaining. You know very well that there is an accountant dishonest, an avid security guard, a hit-deputy director. In general, the only option not to be deceived is to arrange masks at the company and take away everything of value that belongs to it, but it’s already almost two thousand and twenty, and not the dashing nineties, and it’s impossible, business partners don’t understand.

The fact is that in the exchange of prisoners, Ukraine always deceived.

That's always always.

Let's recall the epic exchange of 2017. New Year's Eve too. He had to go through the formula 79 to 306. 306 prisoners should have been issued by Ukraine. Well, as a result, 306 imperceptibly decreased to 237. Moreover, all captured Russians who were supposed to be released allegedly “refused”. A total of 43 people “refused”. It doesn’t fit into my head, but well. Well.

After this, by the way, the second stage of the exchange of prisoners was to take place, almost immediately, in early 2018. But something went wrong.

No, but maybe a Ukrainian prison is like a Spanish one, for example, where you can study, work, watch TV and generally, you can say, live a full life? Yeah.

I remember the crippled militias who returned after an exchange to LDNR in 2015, 2016, 2017. One of them, Vitaliy Lisitsky, was in the hospital for several months - his leg was broken by a splinter, and the most humane Ukrainian jailers in the world were not embarrassed as to arguments in the discussion to beat him on his injured leg, twist it, break it again and again. Well the argument is that. Especially when the opponent does not want to sing the anthem of Ukraine, and you really want him to change his position.

Or here is the militia Valery Ivanov. The Ukrainian side argued that he died in prison in prison, twisted a light bulb and fell on the trash can. And so twenty times. He died from beating. This is a normal practice in Ukrainian prisons - we know about it from the prisoners. From the survivors.

No, if it is a question of exchanging Sentsov’s terrorist for journalist Vyshinsky, Ukraine is pretty accurately complying with its obligations. Because in this case, the second side is Russia, not LDNR. Russia may have very compelling arguments so that Ukraine does not begin to deceive during the exchange. So the Ukrainian side could only offer impossible conditions, delay the process and grimace. If the republic turns out to be the second subject, well, then you can be rude, lie, and mock. Because the republics are bound hand and foot by endless Minsk agreements, because the republics are trying to pull out at least part of their people in the course of these exchanges.

But a significant part of those who are being changed are ordinary Ukrainian citizens who are “sewed” by political articles. They are then recruited - to gain mass during the exchange of prisoners. However, what can we say if a real term in Ukraine can be obtained, for example, for denying the famine?

Pan Zelensky promises that by the New Year his hands will be clean and the Minsk promise of almost five years ago “all for all” will be fulfilled.

Your company has ruined its reputation, Mr. Zelensky, it is impossible to believe.

But we will wait.

The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.