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| Plane with Ukrainian sailors, others heads to Kiev, as prisoner swap between Russia&Ukraine begins | Plane with Ukrainian sailors, others heads to Kiev, as prisoner swap between Russia&Ukraine begins |
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| A plane carrying Ukrainian sailors, a filmmaker and other former prisoners held by Moscow on terrorism and other charges is flying to Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s general prosecutor. It is set to land in Kiev early on Friday. | A plane carrying Ukrainian sailors, a filmmaker and other former prisoners held by Moscow on terrorism and other charges is flying to Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s general prosecutor. It is set to land in Kiev early on Friday. |
| News of the swap being underway was reported across Ukrainian and Russian media from Thursday night into Friday. Ukraine’s newly-appointed prosecutor Rouslan Riaboshapka appeared to confirm the exchange by reposting a Facebook post left by a Verkhovna Rada employee celebrating the release of the sailors, filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, and other Ukrainian nationals who were in Russian custody. | |
| “The exchange is complete: the sailors, Sentsov, [Mykola] Karpyuk, [Volodymyr] Balukh, and [Pavlo] Hryb are flying home,” lawmaker Anna Islamova wrote in the post, reported by Riaboshapka. | |
| There has been no official confirmation of the exchange from either Moscow or Kiev, apart from Riaboshapka’s post, so far. | |
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