KIEV, UKRAINE MILITIAS EXCHANGE PRISONERS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, September 12, 2014, 10:56

Captured Ukrainian soldiers taken out of the encirclement in Ilovaisk, near Donetsk.(RIA Novosti / Gennady Dubovoy)

The prisoners’ exchange is underway between self-defense forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Ukrainian Army. A move was stipulated as one of the key issues of the Minsk ceasefire agreement reached between the two sides last week.

“The exchange has taken place,” a representative of the DPR’s defense ministry told Interfax earlier. “We handed 36 prisoners over to the Kiev side in exchange for 31 of our supporters. Kiev promises to hand over five more tomorrow.”

In the meantime, reporters for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper working in Ukraine have confirmed an exchange of 37 self-defence fighters for 37 Ukrainian troops, saying that the previous report was a bit premature and the actual swap did not happen until later Thursday night.

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