Emotional reunions in Ukraine as lots of of prisoners of warfare return | News | EUROtoday

Scenes of pleasure and celebration broke out exterior a hospital in Ukraine as households reunited with prisoners of warfare returning house.

On Wednesday (March 19), Russia and Ukraine swapped 175 prisoners in one of many largest exchanges of the warfare, following Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s name for an “all-for-all” trade.

Footage from Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv area confirmed the prisoners, frail and visibly exhausted, as they greeted their family members.

Among them was 28-year-old Aliona Skuibida, who introduced balloons and a cake to have a good time her fiancé’s return and his twenty seventh birthday, which had been the day earlier than.

“I did a post on social media in which I wrote to him, ‘I’m sorry it’s already your fourth birthday in captivity,’ but now his fourth birthday will be at home,” she stated.