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Photo: Iryna Gerashchenko<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On December 27, 2017, a major exchange of prisoners took place in Donbas region for the first time in the past two years.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was a really long-awaited event because some of the Ukrainians held\u00a0captive by militants had been waiting for years: some got captured in 2014, others – in 2015, including the “cyborgs” from Donetsk airport.<\/p>\n

Initially, the parties agreed to an exchange of 74 for 306. Russia-backed militants released 73 prisoners of 74, instead, Ukrainian negotiators handed over to the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” 233 people instead of 306.<\/p>\n

The difference in numbers is due to the fact that some people simply refused to go to the other side – one woman refused to return to the government-controlled territory, and a number of prisoners refused to return to the temporarily occupied territories.<\/p>\n

The exchange process took place near the occupied Horlivka in Donetsk region at Maiorske checkpoint, the operation of which was suspended for that time.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u201cDPR\u201d released 54 Ukrainian soldiers, \u201cLPR\u201d released 5 more; 14 more prisoners were civilians. Nevertheless, according to the SBU, even after the exchange Russian proxies are still holding captive 103 more Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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