After long negotiations, Russia and the Ukraine in the great Quiet of the prisoners exchanged. The most Prominent is the Ukrainian film Director Oleh Sentsov. And yet Russia has won the exchange””.
In Kiev, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Selenskyj from Russia arrived prisoners
It was the largest direct exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine in 2014: On Saturday afternoon, each side was free to 35 people. The Ukrainian side calls them “prisoners” in Russia politicians and state media speak of the “persons detained”. Since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine, hundreds of prisoners between Kiev and the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk were exchanged – but always less. The exchange is recorded in the Minsk agreements, it is provided according to the principle of “all against all”.
The present high rate of exchange seems to be a milestone on this path, because with the release of prominent prisoners such as the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov and MH17-witness Volodymyr whose name is the branch appears to be the biggest obstacle out of the way.
Breakthrough because witnesses in the case of MH17?
In the process, negotiations were conducted in some cases, for years without. The breakthrough came only in the summer. Observers in Kiev and Moscow to explain that with the election of Volodymyr Selenskyj to the President. After that, the willingness to compromise has increased on both sides.
Russia has left the condemned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov free
Some suggest, however, that the movement might have something to do on the Russian side, with the surprising arrest of the former separatist fighter, Volodymyr whose name is the branch to. This, among other things, the former Russian oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkowski believes. Moscow wool interfere with the exchange of whose name is the branch for 2020 planned process in the case of MH17, in the Netherlands, he said in an Interview with radio station “Echo of Moscow”. Whose name is the branch is considered to be a key witness in the shooting down of flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine, and was taken at the end of June by the Ukrainian secret service deep in the separatists area. The 58-Year-old was sitting in Kiev due to terrorism in custody and shortly before the exchange released.
The unequal exchange
Despite having the same number of people on both sides, several circumstances suggest that this was an unequal exchange. A small but symbolic Detail: While the Ukrainians were in front of the exchange kept in detention in Moscow, were the people on the Ukrainian side, reports in the media are housed, according to a Sanatorium. Some were released days earlier by the courts from the detention. A total of only a dozen or so of Ukraine that is passed people of the Russian citizens. All the others are Ukrainians, which had to do with separatists.
Volodymyr is whose name is the branch, as a key witness in the MH17 process. Now his statement to the court in question
The greatest inequality is the result the exact views of those who left Moscow free. 24 of the 35 persons are Ukrainian Sailors, who were detained in November 2018 by the Russian border guards as they tried to cross the Kerch Strait on boats of the Ukrainian Navy. Russia would have anyway, you have to let free, the Hamburg-based International Tribunal had ordered in may.
The most prominent returnees in the Ukraine
The most prominent now a prisoner of the 43-year-old Oleh Sentsov, a film maker from the Crimea, which was active during the annexation of Crimea as a proukrainischer activist and, later, in Russia due to terrorism to 20 years ‘ imprisonment has been sentenced is good. Despite many calls to Western leaders and international campaigns refused Russia so far, with their own hands to release it or replace it. Also his comrades-in-arms Oleksandr Koltschenko was convicted of similar allegations to ten years in prison, and now also replaced.
Also prominent Mykola Karpjuk and Stanislaw Klych, which have been condemned in Russia to be particularly high sentences of 22 and 20 years imprisonment. The charge: involvement in the Chechen war in the 1990s, on the side of the separatists. The renowned Russian human rights activist soy Svetova said earlier in Interviews, Klych appears to be based in Russia, tortured and had severe damage to their mental health.
Among the well-known cases of the Ukrainian Journalist Roman suscht Gurchenko, who was sentenced in Russia for espionage, and the Student Pavlo Hryb, taken in Belarus and sentenced in Russia for alleged aid terrorism.
Russia since the annexation of Crimea, both sides of the Kerch Strait
These people has get to Russia
Before the Name Volodymyr has been whose name is the branch on the exchange list to be known, was the Journalist Kiril Wyschynskyj as the number one on the Russian wish-list. The 52-year-old, born in the Ukraine doesn’t have Russian citizenship. Wyschynskyj headed the Kiev office of the Ukrainian branch of the Russian state news Agency RIA Novosti. In the Ukraine, he was accused of high treason, came to a trial so far.
Among the few that are exchanged Russian citizens are some who have fought in the Donbass on the side of the separatists, such as the Russian soldier Viktor Ageev, was in the territory of Luhansk in captivity, and the Russian defense Ministry distances itself had. Russia denies that its military is fighting on the side of the separatists. In addition, a Russian, who wanted to propel to the Ukrainian information 2014 in riots in Odessa a secession from the Ukraine, at least.
Two well-known cases of dual nationality are Maxim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov. Both of them were Ukrainian servicemen in the Crimea, one of which was during the annexation of the page. They were later arrested in the southern Ukraine and charged with desertion to long terms of imprisonment sentenced. Most of the names on the Russian exchange list, which was mostly made only after the exchange public, are hardly well-known Ukrainian men to have fought for the separatists in Eastern Ukraine. One of the few women Julia Prosolowa, is accused of the murder of a Ukrainian secret service officer in 2017, will be called.
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