On October 29, Ukraine held another exchange of prisoners. 52 Ukrainians were released from Russian captivity.

This was announced by Andrii Yermak, Head of the Presidential Administration.

“We held another exchange of prisoners. We managed to release 52 of our people – officers, medics, sergeants and soldiers.” Yermak said.

There are 12 soldiers of the National Guard among them, including two from the Azov Regiment, 18 from the Navy, 8 from the State Border Guard Service, 9 from Territorial Defence Forces, 3 soldiers of the Armed Forces and 2 civilians.

In particular, the defenders of Azovstal and Mariupol, as well as the people who saved lives, return home.

It was possible to exchange the Head of the Surgical Department of the Mariupol Military Hospital, who was at Azovstal, and the young military surgeon of the 65th Military Mobile Hospital.

“We are returning a marine whose wife has recently left captivity and a volunteer from Mariupol with the symbolic call-sing “Moscow,” and a sailor from the Zmiinyi Island,” Yermak added.

Some of the returning home are the military captured in the Chernobyl zone.

As Ruslan Muzychuk, spokesman for the National Guard specified, 7 servicemen who had been captured and removed from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were released.

Meanwhile, militants and the Russian Ministry of Defense say the exchange took place under the 50-50 scheme.

This is the 29th exchange of prisoners since the start of a full-scale war. 1,030 Ukrainians were released from Russian captivity, including 101 civilians.

It should be recalled that on October 26, another prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine took place, during which 10 fighters were returned home, in particular one officer, as well as nine enlisted men and sergeants.