Just in from RFE/RL's News Desk:
Ukrainian authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have completed a prisoner swap, the office of Ukraine's president said on December 29.
"Mutual release of detained persons has ended, " the presidential office said in a tweet, adding that 76 people had been released and transferred to the government.
It wasn't clear how many prisoners had been returned to the separatists.
Earlier, the Unian news agency quoted had quoted a representative of Donetsk separatists as saying that Ukrainian side was expected to hand over 87 people, while the separatists are set to swap 55.
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Ukraine, Russia-Backed Separatists Hold Prisoner Swap
A prisoner swap between Ukraine's government and Russia-backed separatists in the country's east took place on December 29. People who had been held by the separatists were brought by buses to a government-controlled checkpoint near the village of Mayorske. The exchange of prisoners was agreed at a December 9 summit in Paris. The total number and the identities of the prisoners is not yet fully known.
