Halya Coynash: Russia exchanges two Ukrainian political prisoners, many others remain
Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasiev speak to press after they were released from Russian captivity in Moscow on June 14.
74-year-old Yury Soloshenko, the oldest of the men taken prisoner in Russia during the months after the invasion of Crimea and military conflict in Donbas, is finally back in Ukraine. He and Gennady Afanasyev, who was tried on the same fabricated 'terrorism' charges as Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov were seemingly exchanged for Yelena Glishinskaya and Vitaly Didenko, who had been in custody for around a year on separatism charges over their role in a Russian-sponsored so-called 'People's Council of Bessarabia'.
