{"id":42144,"date":"2019-12-31T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42144"},"modified":"2019-12-31T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T14:22:44","slug":"russia-ukraine-mulling-new-prisoner-swap-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42144","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Ukraine mulling new prisoner swap: Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"85.998871331828\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Ukraine and Russia are working towards a new prisoner exchange, just two days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/12\/ukraine-pro-russian-separatists-prisoner-swap-191229090541736.html\">swapping 200 captives<\/a>, Kyiv said after Russian President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/vladimir-putin.html\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on the phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The two countries &#8220;agreed to immediately start agreeing on lists [of names] for freeing Ukrainians, including Crimeans, who are in Crimea and in Russia, as well as Russians in Ukraine,&#8221; the Ukrainian presidency said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h4>More:<\/h4>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The news comes after a massive exchange of prisoners on Sunday, with 12 Ukrainian soldiers and 64 civilians flown to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine also handed over people in its custody to pro-Russian separatists, including five riot policemen suspected of shooting protesters during a pro-Western uprising in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Kyiv was working on returning those imprisoned in Crimea, without specifying numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, shortly after the Maidan uprising removed pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, which also provided a readout of the phone call on Tuesday, remarked on the &#8220;positive&#8221; exchange on Sunday but made no mention of any similar swap being planned.<\/p>\n<p>Exchanging prisoners resumed following face-to-face talks between Putin and Zelenskyy in Paris on December 9, in a European-mediated summit aimed at de-escalating the continent&#8217;s only active war.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict was sparked in 2014 in eastern Ukraine between Kyiv and pro-Russian separatists following the annexation of Crimea and has led to the deaths of more than 13,000 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and Russia are working towards a new prisoner exchange, just two days after swapping 200 captives, Kyiv said after Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on the phone. The two countries &#8220;agreed to immediately start agreeing on lists [of names] for freeing Ukrainians, including Crimeans, who are in Crimea and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}