“Ukraine disrupted these exchanges of prisoners of war several times, that is, this was already the fourth attempt,” TASS quoted him as saying on Channel One.
Pushilin added that the Ukrainian military did not want to hand over Russian servicemen, including pilots, as well as mobilized military personnel from the DPR.
Earlier it became known that the Donetsk People's Republic and Ukraine conducted an exchange of prisoners of war in the format "144 to 144".