On 24 November, another 50 Ukrainian defenders returned home from Russian captivity. These are 20 National Guardsmen, 12 Navy servicemen, 10 soldiers of the Armed Forces, six from the State Border Service, and two from the territorial defence, presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak has said on Telegram.
He noted that among the exchanged there were two officers, 48 privates and sergeants.
"It is important that we managed to return 19 defenders of Mariupol, 12 of whom were evacuated from Azovstal, as well as 15 prisoners from the Chornobyl NPP and seven from the Serpent Island," he said.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry reported that, in terms of military specialities, bomb experts, drivers, medics, signalers, riflemen and others were released. At least nine of the liberated are wounded. The oldest of the liberated defenders is 44 years old, the youngest is 19.
The released servicemen represent:
79th separate air assault brigade
1st separate marine battalion
1st separate battalion for protection of especially important state facilities
Izmayil border guard detachment
95th separate air assault brigade
55th separate artillery brigade Zaporizka Sich
18th separate battalion
13th separate air assault battalion named after the Hero of Ukraine Col Taras Senyuk
132nd separate reconnaissance battalion
Donetsk border guard detachment
Luhansk border detachment named after the Hero of Ukraine Col Yevhen Pikus
16th separate brigade of army aviation Brody
35th separate marine brigade named after Rear Adm Mykhaylo Ostrohradskyy
9th operational regiment named after Hero of Ukraine Lt Bohdan Zavada
36th separate marine brigade named after Rear Adm Mykhaylo Bilynskyy
88th separate marine battalion
23rd separate public order protection brigade Khortytsya
109th separate territorial defence brigade
12th operational brigade named after Dmytro Vyshnevetskyy
Military hospital of the military medical clinical centre of the eastern region
503rd separate marine battalion.