To prepare for the next round of prisoner exchange in 2018, the Ukrainian side has already provided the pro-Russian militants in Donbas with a list of hostilities-related detainees and in turn received the updated list of hostages illegally held in the temporarily occupied territories in eastern Ukraine, according to Darka Olifer, the press secretary of Ukraine’s ex-president Leonid Kuchma, now the country’s representative in the Tripartite Contact Group on Donbas settlement.
Former Ukrainian President and Ukrainian representative to the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas in Minsk Leonid Kuchma says Russia actually wants to create a new border along the contact line in Donbas, according to Ukrayinska Pravda.
Former Ukrainian President and Ukrainian representative to the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas in Minsk Leonid Kuchma says that the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine should be present in Russian-occupied Crimea, but Russia obstructs the monitors' access to the peninsula, according to the news portal Krym.Realii.