Kyiv is continuous efforts to deliver house its residents held captive by Russia, marking the fourth prisoner change in every week, President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced on June 14.
"At this time, amongst these returning to Ukraine, many have been in captivity since 2022," Zelensky mentioned. "These embody troopers from the Armed Forces, Nationwide Guard, State Border Guard Service, and the State Particular Transport Service."
The exchanges are a part of the settlement reached throughout talks held in Istanbul earlier this month, the place each side agreed to phased prisoner swaps and repatriation of fallen troopers.
The newest group freed on June 14 primarily consists of severely wounded and significantly sick troopers, lots of whom had been captured through the protection of Mariupol in 2022.
Many of the launched defenders are officers, with some youthful than 25 years outdated. These Ukrainian defenders served on a number of fronts together with Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Kursk instructions, the Coordination Headquarters for Prisoners of Battle acknowledged.
Ukraine has earlier introduced house service members from Russian captivity on June 12 and 10. Each swaps alsp prioritized severely injured and sick captives. The variety of personnel launched was not disclosed.
The Istanbul deal was reached through the second spherical of direct talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations on June 2 in Istanbul. Whereas no political breakthrough was achieved, each side agreed to a phased change of prisoners and the repatriation of fallen troopers' our bodies. As a part of that settlement, Russia pledged to return the our bodies of as much as 6,000 Ukrainian service members.
Ukraine introduced again the our bodies of two,412 Ukrainian nationals, together with fallen service members, on June 13 and June 11, in addition to 1,200 on June 14.
Amid the continued exchanges, Ukraine continues to push for an "all-for-all" components to deliver each captured Ukrainian soldier house, a proposal Moscow has to date rejected. The Coordination Headquarters mentioned preparations are underway for the subsequent part of prisoner releases within the coming weeks as Kyiv maintains its dedication to recovering all these held captive.
The freed defenders will endure medical examinations, obtain bodily and psychological rehabilitation, and be granted all entitled compensation for his or her time in captivity, in accordance with the Coordination Headquarters.
In a dialog with journalists, Zelensky expressed hope that the prisoner exchanges could be accomplished by June 20 or 21.