KYIV, Ukraine—A prisoner exchange Saturday between Ukraine and Russia marked a key step toward renewed peace talks between the two nations, which have been locked in a low intensity conflict for five years.
In all, 70 prisoners changed hands, 35 from each camp.
The move, which the Red Cross oversaw, was among the most significant peace overtures since 2014, when Russia invaded and seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and then orchestrated a war in the country’s eastern Donbas region.
Notably, this was the largest release of Ukrainian prisoners by Russia since the war began.
Among the freed Ukrainians was filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, 41, …read more
Source:: The Daily Signal
