A step towards a thaw. The Ukrainian authorities and the separatists pro-Russian in Donbass have traded two hundred prisoners, an event that marks a de-escalation in the one conflict active in Europe. “The release of the other detainees is finished,” announced the Ukrainian chairmanship on Facebook, explaining that he had received 76 prisoners. The authorities in the breakaway of the autoproclamate republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, instead, have announced that they have received a total of 124 persons, 61 returned to Donetsk and 63 in Lugansk.
“At the checkpoint Mayorske started the process of release of detainees”, had made known to him in the morning, the official Twitter account of the president of ukraine Volodimir Zelenskij . The exchange took place at the place of control of Mayorske, near Gorlovka.
