Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov was arrested in 2014 and has been serving a 20-year sentence in a Russian Arctic penal colony for planning ‘terrorist attacks’ in Moscow-annexed Crimea. (Reuters pic) MOSCOW: A long-awaited exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev has begun, Russian state television reported on Saturday, broadcasting footage of buses leaving a jail in the capital.
“Buses have left the Lefortovo jail within the framework of preparations for a prisoner exchange,” the Rossiya 24 rolling news channel said.
AFP correspondents at the scene saw two buses with tinted windows leaving the high-security prison in Moscow under a police convoy.
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