The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky made a large-scale exchange of prisoners and detained persons from the Donbass after the end of the quarantine imposed because of the pandemic coronavirus. On Thursday, April 16, reports “112.ua”.
“During the first exchange we brought 35 people, sailors, this was the first part of the exchange, said Zelensky. The second exchange was after the agreement was reached "Norman Quartet", was 76 people. Now we change 20. We can wait for the completion of quarantine and then to spend a larger exchange.” The head of state added that Kiev sought to conduct a large-scale exchange now.
On the morning of 16 April Ukraine exchanged prisoners with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics. Kiev gave the DNR 10 people back nine. The LC of Ukraine went 11 people in the opposite direction — seven.
At the end of December 2019 was a great exchange between Kiev and Donbas. The Ukrainian side has received 76 people, Donetsk and Lugansk — 123.
In September, Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners by the formula “35 on 35”. In particular, in Kiev returned to the detainees in the Kerch Strait, and the sailors convicted of terrorism Director Oleg Sentsov. The Ukrainian side gave the journalist Kirill Vyshinsky and “valuable witness” in the case of a catastrophe Malaysian Boeing Vladimir Tzemach.
