Ukraine has prepared and handed over to the aggressor country russia a list of names of prisoners of war for exchange according to the formula "1000 for 1000".
The representative of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Andrii Yusov, reported this to Ukrinform on Thursday, May 22.
Yusov confirmed that the Ukrainian side has handed over to the russian side a list of prisoners of war for exchange.
"I can confirm the fact of the transfer of lists of our prisoners of war to the Russian side," Yusov said.
We will remind you that if this prisoner exchange takes place, it will be the largest exchange in more than three years since russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on May 16, after negotiations with a delegation of the aggressor country russia in Istanbul, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that an exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war from both sides should take place with russia.
On May 22, the head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak, reported that Ukraine had done its part of the preparatory work for the exchange of prisoners of war with russia.
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