Almost 24,000 Russians wanted to be captured through the project "I want to live" - GUR
A representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Andriy Yusov told about it in an interview with the ISLND TV. He noted that the project works contradictory, as evidenced by the number of people who want to give up Ukrainian captivity. "Almost 24,000 applications have already been submitted from the start of the project to be captured - this is a cool figure," Yusov said.
He also commented on the difference in the maintenance of prisoners of war, which is between Ukraine and Russia, and reminded that we are a civilized country, so we follow all the rules of the Geneva Convention on the maintenance of prisoners of war. "We are not them. We are rightly hated because they are killers, invaders, rapists and invaders, but we are not part of their world, not a" Russian world ", but a civilized, democratic, western world where rules and norms work.
We need to return our people, so Ukraine often unilaterally shows how the prisoners of war is held under the Geneva Convention. We have a three -time camp, very satisfying, not everyone will eat this lunch, with a library and a sports ground, "he said Representative of the Ministry of Defense.
He added that Ukraine also suggested that Russia create a commission that would evaluate the health of prisoners and people with particularly serious illnesses would return home without waiting for exchanges. But there was no answer to this proposal.
"I want to live" - a state project of the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, created with the support of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Main Directorate of Intelligence for the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Russia for voluntary delivery. On August 24, the People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported that in the Verkhovna Rada in the first reading they adopted the Bill No.