A pro-Russian separatist Maxim Ravreba says the representatives of the so-called “Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” gave a not very nice welcome to their henchmen liberated in the prisoner swap on Dec. 27.
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Censor.net: Militant says released separatists enjoyed no warm welcome
Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels swapped hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn east of the country on Dec. 27, one of the largest such exchanges since the outbreak of an insurgency in 2014. The swap of captives on a dusty road close to the town of Gorlivka, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the rebels' stronghold of Donetsk is an attempt to revive a tattered peace deal between the Kyiv army and rebels from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
