DNR confirms Medvedchuk’s exchange
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As a result of the exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kyiv, Ukrainian businessman and politician Viktor Medvedchuk and 55 military men were released, said the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin.
“Viktor Medvedchuk was released from captivity,” quotes his TASS.
According to Pushilin, thanks to Medvedchuk, more than 1,000 DPR servicemen were released as part of the Minsk process and outside it.
Of the 55 servicemen released, five were from the Donbass, he added.
Earlier today on the exchange of prisoners of war reported The Russian Defense Ministry, however, only reported the return of 55 soldiers. Prior to this, the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Andriy Yermak, said that Kyiv had returned 215 people, including more than a hundred fighters and five commanders of the Azov battalion (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation). According to him, ten foreign mercenaries who are now in Saudi Arabia were also returned.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky this morning on his Telegram channel explained that the Azov commanders who had returned from captivity would remain in Turkey until the end of hostilities in Ukraine. He also clarified the data on the released mercenaries: these are five British citizens, two US citizens, as well as one citizen of Morocco, Sweden and Croatia.
After the start of the special operation, the parties reported several times about the exchange of prisoners, as well as the release of truckers and sailors held in Ukraine. On June 29, Pushilin announced the largest exchange of prisoners of war at that time since the beginning of the special operation, he passed according to the formula 144 by 144. On August 3, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexander Fomin said that since February and at that time, Moscow and Kyiv had carried out 27 operations to exchange prisoners of war and bodies dead military personnel.
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