Seventeen people, almost all of them Ukrainian soldiers, have been freed from captivity by the Russians as part of a new prisoner exchange with Moscow, the Ukrainian intelligence services announced on Tuesday (June 28th).
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According to the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, these are two officers, 14 soldiers and one civilian.
Five of them are injured and require emergency treatment.
Ukraine released 15 Russian prisoners as part of the exchange, the intelligence service added on Telegram.
kyiv and Moscow have carried out several prisoner exchanges since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The latest officially announced prisoner exchange took place in early May and involved 41 Ukrainians.
The two countries also exchanged bodies of killed soldiers in mid-June, which enabled Ukraine to recover the remains of 64 defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.