New Year’s swap: Dozens head home as Ukraine & breakaway Donbass conduct ‘all for all’ prisoner exchange

Kiev is exchanging

Kiev is exchanging dozens of prisoners with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the first such effort in two years. The swap was given a boost at the recent Normandy Four talks in Paris.

The self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic is handing over 55 people to Kiev, while receiving 87 of their followers. The swap, carried out under an “all for all” formula, is the first since a similar humanitarian effort in December 2017.

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