75 Ukrainians returned from captivity
31 May 2024 18:07
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Ukraine has returned 75 citizens from Russian captivity, including 71 servicemen. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
“All this time, we have not stopped working for a day to bring home each and every one of the Russian captives. And today we have an important result: another 75 of our people have returned to Ukraine,”
– he said.
According to Zelenskyy, soldiers of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards and four civilians returned from Russian captivity.
“We remember everyone. We are making every effort to find each and every one of them. I am grateful to the team working on the exchanges,”
– the Head of State assured.
In turn, the Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets clarified that a total of 3210 Ukrainians have returned from captivity.
He said that today, during the exchange, the boy Dmytro met with his mother, who had returned home from captivity. The woman had been held at Azovstal, and now she hugged her son for the first time in a long time.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported that the liberated defenders included 70 men and five women, six officers and 65 privates and sergeants. 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 terrorists and four Ukrainian civilians are returning home.
“We managed to bring back 19 defenders of Zmiyiny Island, 14 servicemen who guarded the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, and ten defenders of Mariupol. Ukrainians captured in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy sectors are returning home,”
– the statement reads.
Today’s exchange is the 52nd since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. As of now, 3210 Ukrainian defenders have been released from captivity by the occupiers.
