A long-awaited swap of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine goes under way with 70 people involved in the landmark exchange
A view shows a Russian plane ahead of a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, at Borispil International Airport outside Kiev, Ukraine September 7, 2019.
The channel said the buses had arrived at Moscow's Vnukovo terminal for government flights, and that a Russian government plane had landed at Kiev's Boryspil airport. The head of the defence team for 24 Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia last year told AFP they would be part of the swap. He was arrested in 2014 and has been serving a 20-year sentence in a Arctic penal colony for planning "terrorist attacks" in Crimea.Ukraine could hand over Kyrylo Vyshynsky, a journalist at Russia's RIA Novosti state news agency who was released on bail late last month pending a trial for "high treason".
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the "large-scale" prisoner exchange with Ukraine was being finalised and that the swap would be "a huge step towards normalising relations" with Kiev.
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