Today, February 5, another prisoner exchange took place — 150 Ukrainian defenders returned home.
This was announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Prisoner exchange on February 5, 2025
According to him, soldiers, sergeants and officers returned home.
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— The soldiers of the Navy who were captured in Mariupol and the Zaporizhia region, the Air Force, the Airborne Assault and Ground Forces, the National Guard, border guards, territorial defense forces, as well as a police officer, the head of state said.
He thanked everyone who works and is engaged in the return of our people.
Recall that the previous prisoner exchange took place on January 15, 2025. 25 Ukrainians returned home — both military and civilians.
On December 30, 2024, 187 defenders and two civilians returned home from Russian captivity.
Earlier, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets stated that there are preliminary agreements with Russia that prisoner of war exchanges will be carried out systematically in 2025.
On December 31, 2024, President Zelensky signed a law according to which civilians who survived Russian captivity receive a deferment from mobilization.
