family members: There were emotional scenes as family members were reunited on the runway, according to The Guardian. Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film-maker sentenced to 20 years' prison in Russia on controversial terror charges in 2015, was among those returning home. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was on the tarmac at Kyiv's Boryspil airport to greet the prisoners released by Russia on Saturday morning. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed the released prisoners at the airport in Kyiv. We have done everything we promised, said Zelenskiy. Photograph Anna Marchenko/TASS Both countries freed 35 prisoners as part of the exchange, the first since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and Kremlin-backed separatists carved out two so-called people's republics in eastern Ukraine.
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