The exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine sees the director released more than four years after he was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
was freed in a dramatic prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine on Saturday, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Sentsov — who was seized from his Crimean home after Russian forces occupied the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014 and was later imprisoned for 20 years on charges of plotting attacks against Russian targets — was among dozens of prisoners swapped early Friday. The Ukrianian director's release came as part of an exchange of prisoners that included Kiev handing over Russian prisoners and Moscow returning detained Ukrainian seamen, held since a clash between the Russian and Ukrainian navy in the Kerch Strait, near Crimea, in Nov. 2018.earned him acclaim after its 2012 premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival, was a vocal opponent of the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014.
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