Russia’s envoy at talks between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists said that they agreed on conditions for a prisoner exchange following a deal reached by the two nations’ presidents.Boris Gryzlov, who represents Russia in the so-called Contact Group on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said that the parties agreed to conduct the swap before the end of the year.
Ukraine’s representative in the Contact Group said the list of prisoners to be exchanged have yet to be finalized.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who met the leaders of Russia, France and Germany in Paris on Dec. 9, had hailed the prospective exchange of all known prisoner s as a key achievement of the talks. He said he expected all 72 Ukrainian prisoners held by the separatists to return home before the year’s end.
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