There are currently more than 700 captured occupiers in Ukraine and about the same number of invaders. In addition, the Russian occupiers are holding more than a thousand civilians captive. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk on a telethon,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 16 , April , 2022 | War News .
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“Unfortunately, there are a lot of our civilians (in the captivity of the occupiers – ed.). They captured more than a thousand people, and unfortunately, about five hundred of them are women… We will not exchange the military for civilians, as it is prohibited by the Geneva Convention. We demand the unconditional release of our civilians. As for the military, we have an approximate parity: we have more than 700 of their prisoners and they have about the same number, “Vereshchuk said.
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By order of President Zelensky, there have already been four exchanges of prisoners of war.
In particular, two Ukrainian pilots , Ivan Pepelyashko and Oleksiy Chyzh, were released from captivity by the Russian occupiers.
Source: Ukrgate
