Russia-recognized Republic of Donetsk President announced the anticipated prisoner swap with the Kyiv authorities today, on Saturday.
Busillin wrote on his channel on “Telegram” that there is another exchange with Kyiv according to the form of 50 for 50, noting that “Ukraine will be mainly delivered prisoners of Ukrainian forces, and our fighters will be released.
” For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of 110 Russian citizens from Ukraine to their homeland, including 72 sailors from civil ships, according to the “Sputnik” agency.
The negotiations, according to a statement from the ministry, resulted in the release of the incarcerated inmates from last February who were brought back to their homes on October 17.
Two Ukrainian women refused to accept the voluntary exchange and returned to Ukraine in order to stay in Russia, according to the statement, which also stated that 108 female troops from the Ukrainian armed forces had been given to the Ukrainian side.
It is noteworthy that the Ukrainian presidency announced on October 11 that it received 32 Ukrainian soldiers, as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia, and an Israeli corpse against the Ukrainian forces.
The same day, she declared that following talks, it had been extended to include dozens of Ukrainian troops, some of whom died at Olinka Prison, who had been suspected of being bombed by Russian forces in Kyiv in July.
The Russian forces have imprisoned the elements of the Azov battalion, who surrendered last May after a week -long siege of the Azovistal Industrial Complex in the city of Mariolpol, in Olinka prison in an area controlled by Russia from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
When the prisoner was burned in July, many of them perished, prompting Moscow and Kiev to trade accusations.
Kiev denied that war captives or civilian infrastructure were being targeted. At the time, Voludmir Zellinski, the president of Ukraine, called the “Russian bombing” of the building a “war crime.”
50 for 50 prisoner exchange between Kiev and Donetsk
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