On November 29, Russia released 52 Ukrainian prisoners of war, the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said, and the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Ukraine had handed over more than 50 prisoners of war, Reuters and the Kyiv Independent reported.
According to Yermak, among the freed prisoners are two civilians, among them doctors, officers and soldiers. Among those released are defenders of the Mariupol metallurgical plant “Azovstal” and those who were captured in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The video published by the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, shows Ukrainians who were among 52 prisoners of war released from Russian captivity on October 1. 29.
“We do not stop and continue to fulfill the President’s task to return all Ukrainians home,” he said. pic.twitter.com/j5vCjtNphF
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 29, 2022
“We don’t stop and continue to fulfill the president’s task of ‘returning all Ukrainians home,'” Yermak wrote in Telegram.
⚡️Ukraine returns 52 prisoners of war from Russian captivity.
This was announced by the head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak in October. 29, that among those released were two civilians, including officers, medics and others.
uD83DuDCF7 Andriy Yermak pic.twitter.com/SIDv7a9GGR
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 29, 2022
On October 27, Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Malyar reported that since February 24, Ukraine has carried out 28 prisoner exchanges with Russia, returning home 978 Ukrainians, including 99 civilians.
The largest exchange took place on September 21, when 215 prisoners of war were released from Russian captivity, including the defenders of Azovstal.
On Saturday, pro-Russian separatist Denys Pushylin, head of Donetsk region, one of four regions of Ukraine that the Kremlin unilaterally declared annexed by Russia last month, also said a prisoner exchange with Ukraine was taking place.
According to him, 50 prisoners of war from both sides took part in the exchange, which was later confirmed by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
Source: Hot News RU
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