«Now the dynamics of exchanges have slowed down», — 2,600 people have already been returned from Russian captivity
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- Alina Kvitko
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19:50, 22 October, 2023
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, about 2,600 Ukrainian citizens have been returned from Russian captivity. Mostly they are military, but there are also civilians.
Andrii Yusov, a representative of Ukrainian military intelligence of the Ministry of Defense, told about this in an interview with «Espresso».
Also, according to him, recently there is no such dynamics with exchanges as there was before — both in terms of the number of exchanges and the number of returns, «but certain field exchanges are taking place, there were also separate operations».
Andrii Yusov emphasized that the exchange fund is replenished, and the places of detention of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine are full today.
As a reminder, Ukraine returned another 130 defenders as part of the Easter prisoner exchange. In addition, Ukraine returned another 95 of its defenders as part of another exchange of prisoners. Among them are the participants of the special operation, who flew by helicopter to the surrounded Mariupol.