Zakharova called Kiev's refusal to accept its prisoners immoral.

The Kiev regime refuses to accept a thousand captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) as part of an exchange with Russia, which makes it difficult to carry out new stages of the exchange. This was announced on August 7 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

"The Kiev regime still refuses to accept a thousand captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is why the second stage of the prisoner of war exchange has stalled and the third will not begin," Zakharova is quoted as saying on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

According to her, the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to participate in the exchange of prisoners of war cannot be called anything but immorality.

The diplomat noted that many Ukrainian soldiers have been counting on the opportunity to surrender to Russian forces since the beginning of their service in the Armed Forces, as they consider this a chance to survive.

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On August 6, Russian Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky confirmed that Ukraine had refused to accept 1,000 of its prisoners of war as part of an expected exchange with the Russian Federation. According to him, because of Kiev's similar behavior, the second exchange was difficult, and the third did not begin.

The next day, Zakharova admitted that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky could use the Ukrainian prisoners, whom the Kiev leadership had refused, to receive additional money from the West.

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