Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andrii Yermak reported another prisoner exchange on 4 February in which 116 Ukrainian POWs returned home. According to Yermak, those freed are “defenders of Mariupol, Kherson partisans,...
Ukrainska Pravda reports, referencing CNN Turk, Turkish Ombudsman Şeref Malkoç said that Ukraine and Russia were working on an extensive prisoner exchange, which could involve 1000 people. “At the meeting I attended, the...
64 Ukrainian servicemen and 1 American civilian were released from Russian captivity today in POWs exchange, head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak informed. In particular, the American citizen Suedi Murekezi was...
12 more Ukrainian prisoners of war are returning home in yet another prisoner swap, head of presidential office Andriy Yermak said. They are defenders of Mariupol, Snake island, Chornobyl and three civilians. This is the fourth exchange of...
50 more POWs returned to Ukraine as part of a prisoner exchange on 24 November, including two officers, Head of Zelenskyy’s Office Andriy Yermak reported. They include 19 defenders of Mariupol, 12 of which were captured at Azovstal...
On Nov. 3, 107 Ukrainian soldiers were liberated from Russian captivity, including 74 defending Azovstal, Head of the President’s Office Andrii Yermak said in Telegram. “We returned home many wounded in the battles. In...
The largest part of the exchange took place in Chernihiv Oblast in the late hours of 21 September. “Finally, we were able to return another part of the defenders of Mariupol, including the fighters of the Azov regiment. Tonight the...
On 1 April 2022, officials from Ukraine and Russia conducted a prisoner exchange under an agreement reached by earlier negotiations. Hundreds of service personnel on both sides of the Big War have been captured and await release to return...
Among the many controversial aspects of the exchange, the release of the Berkut officers was probably the most contentious. Criticism focused on two polar narratives: the process of the release and whether it was legal at all; and whether...
A massive prisoner swap in which Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages held in occupied Donbas were released became one of the major events of 2019 for Ukraine. 76 Ukrainians, some of whom had spent over five years in the basement prisons...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
