Soldiers return to Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchange home

Soldiers return to Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchange home

On Monday, both Ukrainian and Russian officials announced the beginning of a new prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia. Among the returning are Ukrainian soldiers who have spent almost the entire duration of the war in captivity.

Details on the prisoner exchange

The exchange was made last week while

incidents before the exchange

The exchange went a dispute ahead of the Russia of Ukraine to delay the exchange - an assertion that Kyiv rejected.

The released persons include Ukrainian soldiers who the City> Mariupol defended. This was exposed to a brutal Russian attack in the first weeks of the war, according to the Ukraine coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war.

The vast majority of the released people have been captured since 2022, confirmed Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliamentary officer for human rights.

Russian confirmation of exchange

The Department of Defense also confirmed that the exchange was underway. "The Russian soldiers are currently in the Republic of Belarus, where they receive the necessary psychological and medical support," said the Ministry.

Wladimir Medinski, the head of the Russian delegation for peace talks with Ukraine, said last week that the exchange has been the largest since the beginning of the Three Years' War. He announced that Russia would be handed over to the corpse of more than 6,000 fallen Ukrainian soldiers, as well as an unspecified number of wounded soldiers.

allegations between Russia and Ukraine

The news from Monday comes after a weekend full of allegations between Moscow and Kiev in relation to the exchange. Russia accused the Ukraine of the transmission of dead Ukrainian soldiers Waited from corpse bags in chilled trucks at a transfer point that Kiev allegedly promised.

Ukrainian officials rejected Russia's presentation of the events and explained that both sides had approved an exchange of seriously injured and young soldiers on Saturday, but had not yet been set for the return of the soldier's graves.

continuation of negotiations and the goal of return

The prisoner exchange is the result of a second row of direct negotiations took place. Although the exchange was agreed, there was no significant progress, and the conversations took a little over an hour.

Since the prisoner exchange should last several days and is "quite complex", negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will continue "almost daily", says Selenskyj on Monday.

"We expect the fully implementation of the humanitarian agreements that were made during the meeting in Istanbul. We do everything possible to bring every single person back. We are working on it at all levels," he added.