Nearly 150 Ukrainian fighters were released from Russian captivity during a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine.
RELATED: Ukrainians take cover as missile debris falls from sky
» Subscribe to USA TODAY:
» Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY:
» USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.
#ukraine #ukrainewar #russia
Statement by Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov
“Yesterday, on June 29, 144 servicemen were exchanged for 144.
It had been organised and held according to the direct order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as the lives, the health and the liberation of our servicemen, the fighters of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics who constitute the majority of the returned individuals, are the most important task.
Everything else is afterwards.
Almost all of the liberated individuals are wounded or gravely wounded. They are already receiving all the medical care they need.
The total number of captured or surrendered Ukrainian servicemen is more than 6,000 people.”
Damn ..not even 1%
Please zelensky, don’t send us back to the front lines.
Ukrainians exchanged for Russians
English Queen could exchange Assange for their mercenaries. But the Americans will not let her. :))
The withdraw from Snake Island, the return of Ukrainian soldiers to their families, there seams to be a pattern here.
Are the russians sudenly getting nice? Has Putin undergone some kind of bad to good transformation Scrooge style?
Also, Putin says he will try to stabilize Afghanistan. Like, where does this schift in mentality come from?