The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine began a large-scale prisoner exchange. It’s going to be the all the prisoners who have been detained in relation to the dispute between the two countries, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The agreement this month, signed by the Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president in Paris, france.
The exchange is to take place close to the place of Horlivka, in the region of Donetsk, in the eastern part of the country.
According to the Russian news service RIA reported, a representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, and that it is in the gevangenruil is going to be 87 separatists and 55 of the Ukraine fighters.
Both sides have been fighting since 2014 and with one another. In the last five years of the conflict, already more than thirteen thousand people are killed. In spite of a cease-fire and find, nevertheless, sporadic fighting is taking place in the region.
Since the outbreak of violence, on several occasions, prisoners are exchanged. In the last exchange, and in december of 2017, Ukraine is approximately, three hundred of the prisoners is given that the seventy warriors, in return, have received it.
