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In Russia, they announced a meeting with the Ombudsman of Ukraine in Turkey: what will be discussed

The Turkish side organizes a large forum, which will be Tatiana Moskalkova and Dmitry Lubinets. It will be the second personal meeting of human rights commissioners since the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova intends to meet with the Ombudsman of Ukraine Dmitry Lubinets. She told reporters at a briefing on January 9, RIA Novosti reported.

According to Moskalkova, the meeting will take place between January 12 and 14 in Turkey. At this time, as the official specified, there will be a large forum organized by the Turkish omboduzman. "Many ombudsmen from different states are coming there, we are pre -discussing the possibility of a meeting and the approximate agenda of our negotiations," Moskalkova said. The Russian Ombudsman hopes that the invaders returned from captivity will soon return home.

"Happy that the next and the first exchange of this year's exchange took place at Christmas. I hope that all our boys will return home very soon," she wrote on Telegram on January 8. On January 3, Lubinets spoke about a planned meeting with Moskalkova to discuss mutual return of civilians. Lubinets questioned Russia's consent to carry out this exchange. "There are many options developed on our part. Again, we do not know if Russia will agree," he said.

Separately, the Ombudsmen can discuss the issues of civilians who were detained in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. After the start of the full -scale war of Russia with Ukraine, the first meeting of Moskalkova and Lubinets took place on October 17 last year. According to the Russian Ombudsman, this time the parties held a "constructive dialogue". In November, Moskalkova was associated with Dmitry Lubin on video, then a number of human rights topics were discussed.

We will remind that on January 8 successfully passed the new exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. 50 Ukrainian defenders - 33 officers, as well as 17 ordinary and sergeants - returned home. On December 31, Focus wrote about a large exchange of prisoners of war, which resulted in the return of 140 people. Among the Ukrainian side were wounded military, defenders of Mariupol and Snake Island, as well as fighters who were in the Bakhmut direction.