Sixty-eight Ukrainian hostages have already been released as of 4.10 p.m. on December 27 as part of the prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists Ukrainian presidential adviser Yuriy Biriukov has said.
“We’re already here. We’re waiting. Sixty-eight people were released as of 4.10 p.m. We’re waiting. We’re nervous,” he wrote on his Facebook page on December 27.
The president’s press secretary, Svyatoslav Tsegolko, in turn, said that the head of state had already arrived in Donbas for a meeting with the Ukrainians released from the captivity of separatists.
“Petro Poroshenko is already in Donbas, where he meets our guys from captivity,” Tsegolko wrote on his Facebook page on December 27.
