Vasyl Bodnar said this at the Media Center.
“There is an ongoing dialogue between the human rights commissioners to come up with a single humanitarian corridor that would allow, by Turkey's mediation, the release of our prisoners of war, as well as those civilians who were imprisoned by the Kremlin regime in the occupied territories or taken to Russia. They should return to their homeland, including through Turkey,” the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey said.
Bodnar said that as of March 30, the search for common ground on the release of prisoners from Russian captivity continues. Another important issue is the liberation of Ukrainian children.
“This is also one of the sensitive topics that has its possible prospects. We are also working on it now, discussing it and looking for ways to implement this initiative,” Bodnar added.
On September 21, 2022, a total of 215 Ukrainian defenders were returned from Russian captivity as a result of the prisoner exchange. The prisoner release operation included three components: the exchange of Ukrainians for Vladimir Putin's friend Viktor Medvedchuk, the release of 5 commanders with the assistance of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the release of 10 foreigners who fought for Ukraine.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Russia's most heinous crime is the forced deportation of Ukrainian children, possibly tens of thousands.
Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk appealed to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova and asked them to provide lists of Ukrainian orphans who are in the occupied territories and deported to Russia.
On March 1, the lawyer of the Regional Center for Human Rights Kateryna Rashevska reported that the Russian Federation has deported more than 1.5 million Ukrainian children to its territory since the beginning of the aggression against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said that Russia is trying to solve the main problem – demographic one – by taking Ukrainians to its most remote regions.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the International Criminal Court will determine whether the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia constitutes genocide.