Ukraine: Relatives of POWs demand govt. arrange release of loved-ones in Kiev

Relatives of Ukrainian military personnel and civilians detained by the anti-government fighters in Donetsk and Lugansk protested for the release of their loved ones in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Kiev, Thursday.
Mother of the detained sergeant of the 57th mechanised brigade Olga Morozova said her son Alexander Morozov "has been in captivity for a year and four months" and that they "have already appealed to the European Court of Justice and to the President and to the SBU [Security Service of Ukraine]. Everywhere is the same answer - we are working on it."
The protest comes after Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was released by Russian authorities as part of a prisoner swap, Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree pardoning Savchenko. In exchange, two Russian citizens who were detained in Ukraine last year and sentenced to 14 years in prison on terrorism charges have been released.
Savchenko had been sentenced to 22 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin in Ukraine's Lugansk Region, and of illegally crossing the Russian border.
Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Aleksandr Alexandrov had been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being convicted of terrorism charges by a Kiev court. They were detained by pro-Kiev fighters in the Lugansk region, where they were allegedly fighting for the militia of the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics (LPR/LNR and DPR/DNR). Yerofeyev and Alexandrov deny the charges against them.