KIEV/DONETSK: Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists have exchanged dozens of prisoners in east Ukraine, a Ukrainian Security Council aide confirmed today, a step towards implementing an internationally brokered peace deal.
Reuters reporters in the village of Zholobok, 20km west of the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, saw more than 130 Ukrainian servicemen being released late on Saturday evening in exchange for 52 rebel fighters.
The exchange is one of the first moves to implement the peace deal reached on Feb 12 in the Belarussian capital Minsk after the French, German, Russian and Ukrainian leaders met.
The Security Council’s Markian Lubkivskyi, in a post …read more
Source: theSun
