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Ninety-five Ukrainian service members returned from Russian captivity, 20 of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment for defending their own land from the aggressor.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
“Ninety-five of our people are back home. Soldiers who defended Mariupol and Azovstal, Donetsk region, Luhansk region, Kharkiv region, Kyiv region, Chernihiv region, and Kherson region,” the president noted.
Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude to the team engaged in the search for and release of prisoners.
The Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said that the return of 95 defenders of Ukraine was the result of a prisoner exchange effort.
“The peculiarity of this exchange is that many Ukrainians are now returning home who were handed down so-called ‘verdicts’ from the judicial system of the aggressor state, being “sentenced”. Twenty-eight of them were sentenced to long terms, and 20 – to life in prison for defending their own land from the aggressor,” the statement says.
