Ukraine conducts 58th exchange of prisoners with RF: another 95 of our defenders returned home

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War conducted the 58th exchange of prisoners of war - another 95 defenders of Ukraine returned home.

This is stated in messages on the Telegram social network on the pages of the Coordinating Staff and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"95 of our people are back home. Soldiers who defended Mariupol and Azovstal, Donetsk Region, Luhansk Region, Kharkiv Region, Kyiv Region, Chernihiv Region, Kherson Region. Every time Ukraine rescues its people from Russian captivity, we are getting closer to the day when freedom will be returned to all, who is in russian captivity," the Head of State emphasized in his post.

In turn, the Coordination Headquarters reported that the peculiarity of this exchange was that many Ukrainians who were convicted by russian courts and received long prison terms (28 people) and even life imprisonment (20 defenders) were returned home.

Among those released from captivity are national guardsmen, military sailors, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards and representatives of other units of the Security and Defense Forces.

In particular, 69 soldiers and sergeants and 26 officers are among released.

The coordination headquarters added that many of those released have serious illnesses and the effects of severe wounds, as well as severe weight loss due to torture and malnutrition.

In total, 3,767 people were freed from enemy captivity as a result of these exchanges. The Conditional Headquarters thanked the United Arab Emirates for its help in organizing this exchange.