45 Ukrainians were freed from Russian captivity

The Ukrainian authorities have excuted another exchange of captives with the Russian occupiers.

This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk.

45 Ukrainians were released from captivity, including 5 wounded servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In particular, Ukraine rescued 13 officers and 20 soldiers.

Also, 12 civilians are returning to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

We remind that on April 19th, Ukrainian authorities carried out the fifth exchange, rescuing 76 Ukrainians.

60 of them were military personnel of the Armed Forces and the rest were civilians. On April 21st, Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war, rescuing 19 Ukrainians.

On April 14th, the Ukrainian authorities carried out a fourth 30-for-30 prisoner-of-war exchange.

On April 1st, Ukraine exchanged 86 Russian servicemen for Ukrainian prisoners of war, including 15 women.

On March 24th, Ukrainian authorities carried out a ten-for-ten exchange of prisoners of war.

In addition, 19 crew members of the “Sapphire” rescue ship captured by the Russian occupiers were rescued.

Earlier, the Ukrainian authorities had also exchanged 9 Russian draftees for the captured mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, who was abducted on 11 March. It is also known about the exchanges authorized by the military commanders, such as exchanging a Russian commander who was captured in the Sumy region for 5 soldiers of the Territorial Defence Forces on March 1st. On April 15th, in Kherson Region, the military command exchanged 5 Ukrainian defenders for 4 captured Russian occupiers.