On December 1, another prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place. 50 people returned home.

Andriy Yermak, Head of the President’s Office, reported this on social media.

“We are returning the defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal, we are returning prisoners who were held in Olenivka, those wounded in battles across Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions,” the Head of the President’s Office wrote.

Yermak confirmed that the exchange is the result of the work of a Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

“This is great work that continues every day. We will work until the last Ukrainian is released. I thank the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Everyone will be returned home,” he added.

According to the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, it was possible to return 4 officers and 46 soldiers and sergeants.

Among them are 14 defenders of Mariupol, including 8 fighters who defended “Azovstal”.

Previous prisoner exchanges

During the two stages of a prisoner exchange on November 23 and 24, 86 servicemen were freed from Russian captivity.

Those released include the defenders of Mariupol from “Azovstal” and national guardsmen captured at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

Before that, the last exchange of prisoners occurred on October 29, when 52 military personnel, including defenders of Azovstal and a sailor from Zmiyiniy Island, returned to Ukraine.

The largest exchange of captive women took place in October when 108 Ukrainian women returned home.

The process was noticeably accelerated after the exchange of over a hundred Azov Regiment soldiers and commanders from Azovstal at the end of September. All, with the exception of five commanders, who will stay in Turkey until the end of the war under the terms of the exchange, are already home.