For months, Ukraine and Russia have been negotiating a major prisoner exchange that would clear the slate for substantive negotiations on ending the war in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-supported separatists have set up two unrecognized statelets, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR). But so far, despite a series of false alarms, the swap hasn’t taken place; if it does, look for this name among those traded to Russia: Volodymyr Tsemakh.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on Nov. 11, 2014 journalists look at parts of the Malaysia Airlines plane Flight MH17 as Dutch investigators (unseen) arrive at the crash site near the Hrabove village in eastern Ukraine, hoping to recover debris from the Malaysia Airlines plane which crashed in July, killing 298 people, in remote separatist-held territory east of Donetsk.
