Today, 75 people have been returned from Russian captivity. These are servicemen of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards and civilians.
This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This is the 52nd exchange of prisoners during the full-scale war, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported.
‘All this time, we have not stopped working for a day to bring home each and every one of the Russian prisoners. And today we have an important result: 75 more of our people have returned to Ukraine. Soldiers of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards, four civilians - all of them are already on their native land,’ the president wrote on Facebook and posted a photo.
‘We remember everyone. We are making every effort to find each and every one of them,’ he added and thanked the team working on the prisoner exchange.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War noted that among the liberated defenders there are 70 men and five women; six officers and 65 privates and sergeants. At least a third of them have been injured, seriously ill or disabled.
‘We managed to bring back 19 defenders of Zmiyinyy Island, 14 servicemen who guarded the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and ten defenders of Mariupol. Ukrainians captured in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Sumy sectors are returning home,’ the statement said.
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine added that ‘at least a third of the rescued have been injured, seriously ill or disabled’.
This time, 37 members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were released from captivity, including 13 members of the Navy and two members of the Air Force. Also, 21 National Guardsmen were released from captivity. Seven border guards, six territorial defenders and four Ukrainian civilians are returning home,’ the intelligence agency said.
