Spontaneously drawn-up exchange lists After the prisoner exchange on April 16, 2020, President Zelenskyy made the following statement: “I’m satisfied and very happy when our soldiers, heroes, political prisoners and ordinary...
This exchange has been rushed amid coronavirus quarantine restrictions that were cited as the reason to ban Ukrainian journalists from the exchange sites. The Ukrainian parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova...
The swaths of the Donbas – Ukrainian easternmost oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk – have been occupied by Russia since 2014. About 14,000 people were killed in the ongoing conflict. The all-for-all prisoner exchange is among the...
5 ex-Berkut officers released from custody upon orders from Prosecutor General Ukraine still doesn’t know who is behind the most important criminal case in its recent history – the massacre of Euromaidan protesters who...
On 7 September 2019, a prisoner exchange took place between Russia and Ukraine. took place. 35 Ukrainian citizens held in Russia on trumped-up charges, 11 of them – Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin and 24 Ukrainian Navy...
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, virtually “the last acceptable mediator between Moscow and Kyiv,” played a key role in organizing the exchange of prisoners between the Russian-controlled Donbas and the...
The difference in the welcomes given the released prisoners in Kyiv and Moscow says more about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict than dozens of words. Nadiya Savchenko was greeted as a heroine in Ukraine’s capital. The entire world has...
After 707 days of imprisonment, the kidnapped and unlawfully convicted on fabricated charges Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was exchanged for two Russian prisoners of war, GRU military intelligence officers Aleksandr Aleksandrov and...
Militants have been sabotaging the process of detainee exchange, the speaker of the Presidential Administration Andrii Lysenko said at a traditional Monday briefing while answering journalists’ questions. “The adversary does...
Markiyan Lubkivsky, an advisor to the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said about 400 more Ukrainian prisoners of war are held by militants in the Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine.“Also not true is the information...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
