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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow/Kyiv, June 26 (Xinhua) — Russia and Ukraine have held a new round of prisoner of war exchanges, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also announced the exchange on his Telegram channel. “We continue the exchanges, another stage,” he wrote.
Neither the Russian nor the Ukrainian side has released the exact number of returned soldiers.
“On June 26 of this year, in accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on June 2 of this year in Istanbul, another group of Russian servicemen was returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. In exchange, a group of prisoners of war of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was transferred,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War of Ukraine noted that official Kyiv was able to secure the release of a group of servicemen under 25 years of age, as well as those with serious injuries or illnesses. They included representatives of the navy, ground forces, airborne assault troops, territorial defense forces, the National Guard and the State Border Service.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian military personnel are currently on the territory of Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, reported that the date of the third round of Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul will be known only after the completion of the prisoner exchanges. –0–