He noted that among the returned fighters - defenders of Mariupol, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk region. Zelensky also stressed that in the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, mediation was provided by the United Arab Emirates. According to the President of Ukraine, from the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, 4 552 military and civilian Ukrainians have been returned from Russian captivity.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation also reported the exchange. In the Ministry of Defense of the aggressor country, 31 wounded Ukrainian military in exchange for 15 wounded Russians as a "goodwill gesture" was announced. We will remind, on April 18 the coordination headquarters on the management of prisoners of war reported that from Russia and the front to Ukraine transferred the bodies of 909 dead defenders.
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