the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND) on Thursday morning, April 16, delivered the detained persons to the checkpoint, “Horlivka” of where the exchange should take place with Kiev. This was reported by “Donetsk news Agency”.
Members of the exchange are in the process of fingerprinting.
Earlier it was reported that Kiev and Donetsk will hold an exchange of detainees in the “10 by 8”. That the parties agreed to end an exchange before Easter, said the Commissioner for human rights in the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Daria Morozova. The office of the President of Ukraine confirmed this information.
the First in the last two years a major prisoner exchange between Kiev and Donbas took place on 29 December 2019. The Ukrainian side has received 76 people, the self-proclaimed Republic returned 123 people.
the Armed conflict in the South-East of Ukraine began in 2014.