Ukraine, Russia alternate greater than 200 troops in prisoner swap | Russia-Ukraine struggle Information

Such exchanges signify one of many few areas of cooperation between Ukraine and Russia.

Greater than 200 Russian and Ukrainian troopers have returned dwelling in a prisoner swap, the warring international locations have stated.

Russia’s Defence Ministry stated on Monday that 106 Russian troopers had been launched from Ukrainian custody as a part of an settlement with Ukraine.

Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of workers, stated that Russia freed 100 Ukrainian prisoners.

Neither announcement talked about whether or not any intermediaries had been concerned within the settlement.

A few of the Ukrainian troopers have extreme accidents and sicknesses, Yermak stated in a press release revealed on Telegram.

He added that the newest of the sporadic prisoner swaps within the struggle that began in February 2022 was “not a simple one”. He didn’t elaborate.

Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Therapy of Prisoners of Battle alleged that just about half of the 80 males and 20 girls troopers who returned dwelling “have critical accidents, sicknesses or have been tortured”. It introduced no proof for its claims.

In line with Ukrainian information experiences, one of many girls prisoners is Valeriia Karpilenko, a border guard who had helped defend Mariupol’s Azovstal metal plant. Final Could, she married a Ukrainian soldier within the metal plant’s basement whereas Russian forces surrounded the complicated. Her husband was killed three days later.

The freed Russians had been being flown on navy transport planes to Moscow for medical remedy and rehabilitation, the Defence Ministry stated.

Such exchanges signify one of many few areas of cooperation between Ukraine and Russia. The 2 sides have returned lots of of one another’s troopers, in addition to the our bodies of fallen troops, for the reason that struggle started.

In the meantime, Ukraine’s presidential workplace stated at the very least six civilians had been wounded within the newest Russian shelling.

Individually, the Donetsk area’s Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated Russian forces struck an influence plant and residential buildings within the jap province.

The Russians additionally shelled 9 border villages within the provinces of Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk stated in televised remarks that the nation has practically seven million internally displaced individuals, together with about a million kids.

Most of them have deserted their properties within the east and the south to maneuver to safer places in central and western Ukraine.