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Jailed filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been freed and returned to Ukraine

Source: Meduza

Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years in prison in Russia for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks, has been returned to Ukraine in a historic prisoner exchange between Moscow and Kyiv that included dozens of others. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Sentsov's family were there to meet him on the tarmac at Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv.

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