Exchange of captured fighters offers some hope that the Minsk peace deal will be implemented despite continued fighting around MariupolUkrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists have exchanged dozens of prisoners, a Kiev security official confirmed on Sunday in a step towards implementing an internationally brokered peace deal. Reuters reporters in the village of Zholobok, 20 km (12 miles) west of the rebel stronghold of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, saw more than 130 Ukrainian servicemen being released late on Saturday evening in exchange for 52 rebel fighters. Related: The Guardian view on the lessons of Ukraine: eyes wide open | Editorial …read more
Source: The Guardian
