Deputy Prime Minister Vereshchuk announced another exchange of prisoners: 76 Ukrainians are returning home

The fifth exchange of prisoners took place, 60 servicemen return home

Rubryka reported this, referring to the Facebook page of the Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk.

"Today we exchanged 60 servicemen, 10 of them officers.

16 civilians are also returning home.

This was the fifth prisoner exchange. In total, 76 people," Vereshchuk wrote.

As reported by Rubryka, on April 1, the Ukrainian authorities exchanged prisoners with russians in the format of "86 to 86."

In particular, 15 women defending Ukraine were released from captivity.

As Rubryka previously reported, on March 24, prisoners of war were exchanged in a 10-by-10 format.

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 while trying to take our troops from Snake Island," Vereshchuk wrote.