Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels exchange prisoners
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Published: 20th Apr, 2020
Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels exchanged 34 prisoners aimed to create conditions that could lead to the end of the six-year war in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels exchanged 34 prisoners aimed to create conditions that could lead to the end of the six-year war in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine took back 20 of its citizens in exchange of Fourteen rebels in the swap with the two separatist entities in the rebel-controlled east.
Prisoner exchanges were part of an agreement brokered last year at a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the prisoner exchange and urged all the parties to take further measures in this spirit