KYIV. UkraineGate . 29 . October .2022 | War News .
Ukraine conducted another exchange, returning 52 people from enemy captivity, including officers, doctors, sergeants and soldiers, head of the President’s Office Andriy Yermak said on Saturday, October 29, on Telegram .
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“Ours are coming home. They conducted another exchange of prisoners. We managed to free 52 of our people – officers, doctors, sergeants and soldiers,” Yermak wrote.
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According to the head of the Op-Ed, among them – 12 fighters of the NGU, including two “Azovians”, 18 from the Navy, 8 from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, 9 from the TRO, 3 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 2 civilians.
“Defenders of Azovstal, defenders of Mariupol and people who saved lives are returning home. We managed to exchange the head of the surgical department of the Mariupol military hospital, who was at Azovstal, and the young military surgeon of the 65th military mobile hospital. We are returning a marine whose wife has recently been released from captivity and a volunteer from Mariupol with the symbolic surname “Moscow”, as well as a sailor from Zmiyiny Island. Some soldiers captured in the Chernobyl zone will also be at home,” Yermak said in detail.
He stressed that the work does not stop and the fulfillment of the President’s task “to bring home all Ukrainians” continues. “We still have a lot of work to do, but we have an important result – ours at home. We will return everyone,” the official added.
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Before that, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Malyar said that since the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 28 exchanges have already been carried out and 978 people have been released.
Source: Ukrgate