Ukraine in Talks With Rebels on Prisoner Exchange, RIA Says
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Ukraine’s government is holding talks with pro-Russian separatists on a prisoner exchange, according to a rebel official cited by Russian news service RIA Novosti.
Ukrainian authorities are holding about 220 separatists, while the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has about 30 prisoners, RIA cited Darya Morozova, the breakaway region’s ombudsman for human rights, as saying. The next prisoner swap could take place in mid-January, Denis Pushilin, the separatist envoy to the talks, was quoted as saying by RIA.