Ukraine, Russia swap 50 POWs
The swap raises to 1,269 the total number Ukrainian prisoners of war recovered from the Russian side.
R SSIA and kraine carried out the latest in a series of prisoner of war exchanges on Thursday, with both sides handing over 50 people, officials in Kyiv and Moscow said.
Russia’s defence ministry said kraine had released 50 Russian soldiers who had been captured.
Andriy Yermak, head of the krainian presidential administration, said on Telegram that kraine received soldiers and two officers, among them marines, infantrymen, border guards and members of the territorial defence.
“We have managed to bring back 19 defenders of Mariupol...
as well as 15 prisoners of war from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant and seven from miiny Island,” Yermak said.
Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed head of the part of kraine’s Donetsk region that is under Russian control, said earlier that a prisoner swap with
Kyiv was taking place, involving 50 prisoners on each side.
The swap raises to 1,269 the total number krainian prisoners of war recovered from
the Russian side, according to the krainian authorities, with
1 swapped earlier this week. The swaps have taken place in general on a one-for-one basis.