Perhaps no one in Kyiv faces a more difficult task than First Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Herashchenko. Herashchenko is Ukraine’s lead negotiator tasked with freeing Ukrainians held captive in the Donbas. The Ukrainian government and Russia’s separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine exchanged nearly 400 prisoners in late 2017 — a notable achievement for which Herashchenko deserves her nation’s gratitude.
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(FILE PHOTO) Ukrainian prisoner of war (POW) hugs his relatives at the Boryspil airport as he has arrived after prisoners of war exchange on Dec. 28. 2017.
