According to several Russian media, Russia and Ukraine began exchanging inmates who were detained for reasons such as "terrorist activities" on the 7th. It includes 24 crew members of the Ukrainian ship that was shot and captured by the Russian side last fall near the Crimea peninsula in southern Ukraine.
This could be a major momentum to ease tensions in both countries and to resume peace talks over the eastern conflict in Ukraine.
According to Interfax communications, two large buses guarded by police and special forces arrived at Bunukovo airport in Moscow on the morning of the 7th and stopped in front of the aircraft arriving from Ukraine.
According to the correspondence, a lawyer on the Ukrainian side said, "All 24 of the crew of the ship, including Ukrainian intelligence personnel, will be handed over."
It also includes Oreg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film director who criticized Russia for the Crimean issue and was sentenced to 20 years in the country.
On the other hand, according to Russia's state-owned news agency Nobosch, the Russian government aircraft carrying Russians imprisoned in the country took off from the airport on the same day in the suburbs of Kiev, Ukraine.
The two countries have arrested and imprisoned information agency officials and journalists from each other since Russia unilaterally merged the Crimea of Ukraine in 2014.
Of the Ukrainian ship last November ...