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Vitaly Kim said that the Ukrainian authorities managed to carry out 11 prisoner exchanges. Most of those who returned home were military men.
The head of the Mykolaiv regional military administration spoke about the exchange of prisoners on the air of the national telethon. Channel 24 reports this.
In these exchanges, our fallen soldiers were returned. The overwhelming majority are the military (persons who were exchanged – 24 channels). I can't say who is involved in the exchange, but this work has been carried out since the first days, – Kim said.
Note that earlier the chairman of the regional military administration said that the exchange took place in the form of “4 for 5”. That is, 4 Russian captives who were in Ukraine were exchanged for 5 of our citizens.
As part of this exchange, Oleg Pilipenko, the head of the Shevchenko UTC of the Nikolaev region, was fired. He was in enemy captivity for more than 2 months – since March 10.
Pay attention!Neither the Ministry for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, nor the Ministry of Defense, nor the Security Service of Ukraine have reported about 11 exchanges of prisoners. p>During the hostilities, Russian infidels captured 3 foreign soldiers who voluntarily came to Ukraine to help our army resist the Russian invaders. British citizens 26-year-old Aiden Aslin and 48-year-old Sean Pinner, as well as Moroccan Saadoun Brahim, joined the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The occupation “court” in the quasi-republic in Donetsk illegally sentenced the military to death. Like, they are guilty of “hiring and forcible seizure of power by a group of persons in wartime.” In London and the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they were outraged by such actions of Russian mercenaries.
Now the defense side has less than a month to appeal this decision. The Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, Irina Vereshchuk, is sure that foreign defenders will be exchanged, because according to international law, prisoners of war cannot be tried.
Recall that on June 8, the bodies of 58 dead Ukrainian defenders from Mariupol were brought to Kyiv. The identification process will be lengthy, since a DNA test is required for recognition.
The dead soldiers are planned to be buried at the Memorial to the fallen heroes of Azovstal, which they want to build on the slopes of the Dnieper.
