Ukraine and separatists begin largest prisoner exchange of conflict

Ukraine handing over 306 prisoners in exchange for 74 people taken captive by Russia-backed separatist forcesUkraine and Russia-backed separatists have begun to exchange more than 300 prisoners in the war-torn east of the country, in the largest such swap since the insurgency broke out in 2014.The exchange of prisoners was being carried out at a checkpoint near Horlivka, a city in the eastern Donetsk region. Ukraine handed over 246 prisoners in exchange for 74 people who had been taken captive b