“We managed to free twelve of our people. Among them are four marines, two national guardsmen, two border guards, a member of the regional security forces and three civilians: a husband and wife and a man who are reported missing,” wrote the president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak. ., in your Telegram network account.
According to Yermak, soldiers would have been captured during the siege of Mariupol, a coastal city in southern Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which Russian forces occupied for a month last spring, and Snake Island in the Black Sea.
According to the head of the presidential office, with this exchange, the number of Ukrainian prisoners of war exchanged with Russia in one week has increased to 98.
“We are working to free all our people. We will not stop,” Yermak concluded.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that nine Russian soldiers had been repatriated “from areas controlled by the Kiev regime” this Saturday.
Last Thursday, 50 Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war were exchanged, while 35 Russian soldiers were released the day before, along with the same number of Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian.
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