One of the key messages at the heart of Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential campaign in 2019 was a very simple one: peace in Donbas, the war-torn region of Ukraine where Russian-supported separatists continue to fight a war against the Kyiv government. Zelensky’s message was based on the assumption that if a ceasefire could be respected, and all Ukrainian prisoners-of-war could return home, then peace would have been achieved.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged that the so-called Maidan case will be finished during the briefing after the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russian-backed militants on Dec. 29, 2019. Ukraine had released five former officers of the now disbanded Berkut police that are suspected of the killings.
