As a result of the new exchange, Ukraine returned 186 of its citizens from Russian captivity.
Source: President Volodymyr Zelensky, Coordinating Staff in social networks
Zelensky’s direct speech: “Another 185 Ukrainian defenders are returning home from Russian captivity today. And one civilian is also returning with the defenders. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard and the State Border Service.
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Privates, sergeants and officers. They defended our state in Mariupol and Azovstal, as well as in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Sumy, Kyiv and Kursk areas. Among them are those who are returning after years of Russian captivity, in which they have been since 2022.”
photo of the Coordinating Staff
photo of the Coordinating Staff
Details: The Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War notes that this is the next, 75th exchange of prisoners. As a result of the negotiation process, 185 Ukrainian servicemen were released from Russian captivity. Separately, it was also possible to return to the Motherland one Ukrainian civilian, who had been held captive by the Russians since 2022.
Servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces returned home, in particular, representatives of the Naval Forces, Ground Forces, DSHV, TrO, SSO, VSP, as well as soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine and the State Border Service.
More than half of the currently released defenders were captured in 2022, some of them during the defense of Mariupol.
Among those released is a participant in a unique helicopter operation – an air bridge to Azovstal.
The youngest released is 26 years old, the oldest is 62 years old. Among the defenders released today are two officers.
photo of the Coordinating Staff
