Ukraine and Russia have exchanged prisoners of war, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months. The Ukrainians were returned on several buses that drove into the northern Sumy region. As they disembarked, they shouted joyfully and called their families to tell them they were home.
A Ukrainian serviceman reacts after returning from captivity during POWs exchange in Sumy region, Ukraine , Friday, May 31, 2024. Ukraine returned 75 prisoners, including four civilians, in the latest exchange of POWs with Russia . It’s the fourth prisoner swap this year, and 52nd since Russia invaded Ukraine . In all, 3 210 Ukrainian servicemen and civilians were returned since the outbreak of the war.
“I just want to hear my wife’s voice, my son’s voice. I missed his three birthdays,” he said. In the more than 800 days he spent in captivity, heWith the exchanges, including Friday’s, Ukraine has gotten back a total of 3,210 members of the Ukrainian military and civilians since the outbreak of the war, according to Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for Treatment of POWs.Dmytro Kantypenko was captured on Snake Island in the Black Sea in the first days of the war.
U.N. reports based on post-release interviews have found that the majority of Ukrainian POWs are subject to routine medical neglect, severe and systematic mistreatment, and even torture. The same reports have found isolated reports of abuse of Russian soldiers, mostly during capture or transit to internment sites.
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