This is the eighth prisoner exchange since the beginning of the full-scale war.
April 30 was another exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and Russia , said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. 14 Ukrainians are returning home: seven military and seven civilians.
“For me, this exchange is special: one of the military women in the fifth month of pregnancy. God bless you! ” Vereshchuk added. This is the eighth prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of the full-scale war. The first took place on March 24, the seventh – on April 28.
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According to Vereshchuk, the Russians are holding captive, in particular, Ukrainian priests, journalists, activists, mayors and ordinary civilians in prisons not even in Ukraine, but in the Kursk, Bryansk and Rostov regions. These people have to sit in the same cells with criminals .
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