Russia and Ukraine completed a highly anticipated major prisoner exchange, with the two sides agreeing to trade 35 prisoners each, marking a potentially major diplomatic breakthrough.
Russia and Ukraine on Saturday completed a highly anticipated major prisoner exchange, with Russia handing over the Ukrainian film director, Oleg Sentsov, and 24 Ukrainian sailors seized during a naval confrontation last year, in return for a key witness in the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
Zelensky's presidential office posted a full list of the 35 Ukrainians released. The Ukrainian newspaper, Ukrayinska Pravda also published a list of the 35 returned to Russia, which included Tsemakh's name. The exact list of who would be included in the prisoner exchange has been shrouded in secrecy amid negotiations over the past week, though there had been signs for almost three weeks that Sentsov and the sailors would be part of any trade. This week Zelensky pardoned 12 of the Russians to clear the way for their release.
The release of Sentsov is particularly significant. The film director was considered perhaps Russia’s most high-profile political prisoner. He was arrested shortly after Russia's invasion of his native Crimea in 2014 and sentenced to 20 years in a prison colony on terrorism charges that international human rights groups condemned as trumped up.
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