16:36
24 Mar 2022
Vereshchuk reported the first full-fledged exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia
Today, by order of President Zelenskyy, the first full-fledged exchange of prisoners of war took place
This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister, Head of the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, Iryna Vereshchuk, on Facebook.
As she noted, in exchange for 10 captured occupiers, we pulled out 10 of our servicemen.
"Also, today we sent 11 Russian civilian sailors to the Russians, whom we rescued from a sunken ship near Odesa.
As a result of this exchange, 19 Ukrainian civilian sailors are returning home from the Sapphire rescue ship.
They were captured by the occupiers in an attempt to take our troops from Zmiinyi Island.
Under the terms of the exchange, the rescue ship itself will also be returned to Ukraine and sent to a port in Turkey," Vereshchuk wrote.
