KYIV. UkraineGate .8. November .2022 | Political News .
Russian Ambassador to the Vatican Alexander Avdeev, in a comment to the Italian publication Askanews, said that the exchange of prisoners takes place taking into account the lists of captured servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which Pope Francis reports .
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“In this case (exchange of prisoners of war – ed.) We highly appreciate the personal actions of the pontiff, who performs a very important humanitarian mission that allows hundreds of people to be returned to their families,” the ambassador said.
Supplement
Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets said that 30 prisoners of war from Zmiyiny Island had already been liberated from Russian captivity.
Also, 19 border guards returned from Russian captivity to Ukraine.
On November 3, another exchange of prisoners took place. Ukraine has returned 107 servicemen, 74 of them are defenders of Azovstal.
Recall
On Sunday, November 6, Pope Francis said that the brutality with which the Russian military acts in Ukraine is not peculiar to the Russians.
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Oksana Markarova, commenting on the words of the pontiff, suggested that he inattentively read the works of the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky if she believed in the humanism of Russians.
Source: Ukrgate
