September 8, 2019 (UNIAN) The press
service of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a full list of
Ukrainians who returned home on September 7, 2019 as part of a prisoner swap
between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Read also Plane with Ukrainian
political prisoners lands in Boryspil. The list includes 11 political
prisoners: Roman Sushchenko, Oleh Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Volodymyr
Balukh, Stanislav Klykh, Mykola Karpiuk, Oleksiy Syzonovych, Pavlo Hryb, Edem
Bekirov, Yevhen Panov, and Artur Panov. In addition, 24 Ukrainians sailors
captured by the Russian Federation in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018
were freed yesterday.
As BBC reported Russia has
not yet confirmed the names of the prisoners who have been released by Ukraine.
It arranged a low-profile arrival at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, with initial
reunions kept behind closed doors. In Ukraine, the scene was very different.
The prisoners freed by Russia reunited with their relatives on the tarmac at
Kiev's Boryspil airport, surrounded by the press. The Ukrainian government has
since published a list of the 35 prisoners released by Russia. It includes 24
Ukrainian sailors whom Russia detained off Crimea in November last year. But
the most significant and controversial person Ukraine sent to Russia is
Volodymyr Tsemakh, reportedly a commander of air defences for Russian-backed
rebels in eastern Ukraine. Mr Tsemakh, 58, is a "person of interest"
in the Dutch-led investigation into the 2014 shooting down over Ukraine of
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, which led to the deaths of all 298 people on
board.
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