Ukraine recovers 90 military personnel from Russian captivity – photos, videos

On June 25, as part of a prisoner exchange, Ukraine successfully recovered 90 military personnel from Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced.

"Warriors of the National Guard, the Navy, the Armed Forces, the Territorial Defense Forces, the Border Guard Service. Those who defended Mariupol. Those who defended the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Those who were on the Kherson, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk directions," the president wrote.

Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine remembers all those in Russian captivity and continues to work for the release of everyone.

The president thanked the team involved in the exchanges and all international partners who assisted in the liberation of Ukrainians from Russian captivity.

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War specified that among those who returned home were 32 National Guard soldiers, 18 border guards, 17 Navy personnel, 15 Armed Forces fighters, and eight Territorial Defense fighters.

Specifically, 59 defenders of Mariupol were returned, including 52 fighters from the Azovstal plant. Additionally, five National Guard soldiers who guarded the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant were freed from Russian captivity.

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