The presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, discussed a new exchange of prisoners, after the first operation of this kind in September and the second in December, but between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels, the Ukrainian authorities announced today.
In a telephone conversation, Putin and Zelensky mentioned the "release of imprisoned Ukrainian citizens" in the east of Ukraine, an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels, as well as on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and in Russia, according to a statement from the Ukrainian president's office.
The presidents also discussed a new meeting in the format of Normandy, after such a meeting in December in Paris with the mediation of France and Germany.
Putin and Zelensky met for the first time in Paris, and after that there was an exchange of about 200 prisoners between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists, which was an operation to calm the conflict between the two sides, in which more than 2014 people have died since 13.000. .
In September, Kiev and Moscow exchanged 70 prisoners, and Russia returned seized warships to Ukraine.
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