Zhovtnevy District Court of Mariupol has released from custody four suspects in the case of the May 9, 2014 seizure of the building of the Mariupol city police department, according to the suspects’ lawyer, Vitaliy Omelchenko, Hromadske has reported.
Ukrinform: Separatists who seized Mariupol police department released for prisoner swap
A man gestures as pro-Russia rebels who were made prisoners wait in a bus during a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels on the check-point near the city of Gorlivka on Dec. 27, 2018.
Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels swapped hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn east of the country on December 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 Kiev army and rebels from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
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