Lubinets explained why there are no POW exchanges

The Ukrainian parliamentary commissioner for human rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said this.

The ombudsman noted that the issue of exchanges is heard all the time. The only answer is that"exchanges do not take place because Russia does not want it".

All initiatives, desires and actions of Ukraine to return its defenders from captivity are met with Russian unwillingness to return even its own citizens. I would like to note that many Russian prisoners of war have written statements that they want to return, but no one from the Russian side wants to take them back," Lubinets said.

He also recalled the most massive information campaign against Ukraine, "Maidan 3", which is now being conducted by the enemy. It is aimed at shifting accents, inciting hostility and aggravating disagreements in Ukraine and among Ukrainians.

So the lack of exchanges has become an element of the Russian operation so that the relatives of the defenders believe that the Ukrainian authorities do nothing to return the soldiers," the ombudsman said.

Dmytro Lubinets called on Ukrainians not to get distracted by petty scandals and to focus on helping the army.