Ukraine War: Moscow and Kyiv exchange prisoners of war

Russia and Ukraine replaced war prisoners again on Holy Saturday. 246 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers each returned to their own troops in a place on the border with Belarus, which had not been described in more detail, the Ministry of Defense said in Moscow. “In addition, 31 wounded prisoners of war were handed over to the gesture of good will in exchange for 15 wounded Russian soldiers who urgently need to be medical care,” the statement said.

The exchange was conveyed by the United Arab Emirates. The warring parties have exchanged several prisoners of war in the more than three years since the beginning of the Russian invasion. According to President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, 4,552 Ukrainian soldiers were able to return home.

It was only on Good Friday that Ukraine and Russia replaced hundreds of soldiers’ corpses. 909 Leichname received the Ukrainian side, the staff in Kiev responsible for prisoner prisoner said. The soldiers were killed in fighting in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Saporischschja, Sumy and Charkiw regions. Some came from corpse houses in Russia. Ukrainian troops checked parts of the West Russian border area Kursk for months. In return, the Russian side received the remains of 41 own soldiers.

According to Ukrainian information, the exchange took place according to the imparting of the International Red Cross.