Some in Ukraine are unhappy that riot police accused of opening fire on protesters against the country’s Russia-friendly then-president Viktor Yanukovich in 2014 are among those who were handed over
Ukrainian citizens line up during a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and the separatist republics near the Mayorsk crossing point in Donetsk on Dec. 29, 2019.Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine completed a full prisoner swap on Sunday after bussing remaining detainees in the five-year conflict to an exchange point in the breakaway Donbass region.
The swap, at a checkpoint near the industrial town of Horlivka in the Donetsk region, had initially been expected see Ukraine hand over 87 separatists in exchange for 55 pro-government Ukrainians. “Today’s prisoner exchange in #Donbass will bring relief to the persons involved and their families, but it will not bring the settlement any closer,” Dmitri Trenin, head of the Moscow Carnegie Center and a former colonel in the Russian army, wrote on social media.
Relations between Ukraine and Russia collapsed following Moscow’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, and its subsequent support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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