(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 04 - New exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, with the mediation of the United Arab Emirates.
The head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak reported that 116 prisoners of war have been released by Russia: the group includes soldiers who fought in Mariupol, partisans of Kherson, soldiers of Bakhmut.
The bodies of dead foreign volunteers AndrewBagshaw and Christopher Parry were also returned.
Among the 116 Ukrainian soldiers who returned from Russian captivity today, 23 are injured or ill, some have lost limbs due to frostbite, the youngest has just turned 20, the oldest is 62, specifies the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war .
Simultaneously, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that a group of 63 Russian POWs had been released after negotiations with Ukraine brokered by the UAE.
This is the second prisoner exchange of 2023. (ANSA).