Hundreds of Ukrainians have returned home during prisoner exchanges since June 2025.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this on July 6.
Zelensky on eight prisoner exchanges since June 2025
The head of state notes that eight stages of a major prisoner exchange have taken place to date.
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In particular, since the beginning of June, hundreds of Ukrainians – military and civilians – have returned home.
– Our youth, the defenders of Mariupol, those who held the line in the Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Lugansk, Kharkov, Sumy, Chernihiv and Kyiv regions.
The wounded, the seriously ill. Those who were considered missing, most of them were in captivity since 2022. And not only the military. Ukraine returned civilians too, – emphasized Volodymyr Zelensky.
The prisoner exchanges, the president notes, are the result of efforts made by a large Ukrainian team.
The work, the head of state assures, continues.
The team, concludes Vladimir Zelensky, will work until it returns everyone, everyone without exception.
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