War in Ukraine: Before Easter ceasefire: Kiev and Moscow alternate prisoners | EUROtoday

According to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia and Ukraine have every launched 175 prisoners of conflict earlier than the beginning of a deliberate Easter ceasefire. “In addition, seven citizens of the Russian Federation who were unlawfully detained by the Kiev regime were returned,” the ministry stated. They are residents of the Kursk area. The ministry additionally thanked the United Arab Emirates for arranging the prisoner alternate.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj confirmed the motion a short while later. “175 soldiers. Armed forces soldiers, members of the National Guard, border guards. Soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers. And seven civilians,” he stated on Telegram.

“Our soldiers defended Ukraine on various fronts: in Mariupol, at the Chernobyl power plant, in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Kiev and Kursk regions,” Zelensky stated. “Among them are the wounded. Most have been in captivity since 2022. And finally – home.”

An introduced 32-hour ceasefire is scheduled to start within the afternoon in order that Christians in Ukraine and Russia can have fun Orthodox Easter. The conflicting events have repeatedly exchanged prisoners of conflict within the Russian conflict of aggression in opposition to Ukraine, which has been happening for greater than 4 years, most just lately in March.