The first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Iryna Gerashchenko, 42 prisoners were transferred from the occupied Luhansk to the territory controlled by Ukraine. They were convicted before the beginning of the Russian aggression in 2014 and expressed their desire to serve their sentences in the Ukrainian prisons. She stated this on Facebook, UNIAN reports.
“Today, as part of the agreements previously reached on the humanitarian subgroup in Minsk, convicts have been displaced before the outbreak of the war in 2014, unrelated to the conflict. 42 people from the occupied Luhansk were transferred to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities,” Gerashchenko wrote.
According to her, the convicts want to serve their sentences in Ukrainian prisons.
