KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have started a prisoner swap, the office of Ukrainian president said on Thursday.
It is the first swap in 2020 and Ukraine will take back 19 its citizens, the president’s office said in a statement.
The conflict that broke out in 2014 killed more than 13,000 people, left a large swathe of Ukraine de facto controlled by the separatists and aggravated the deepest east-west rift since the Cold War.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Toby Chopra)
