Ukraine has brought back 45 POWs as part of a prisoner swap, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reports.
According to Yermak, two officers, 41 privates and sergeants, as well as a civilian employee of the Azovstal steelworks and a member of territorial defence of Kherson were returned to Ukraine.
Furthermore, two children illegally deported to Russia were brought back to Ukraine — a 6-year-old boy, Renat, and a 10-year-old girl, Varvara. Their mother, a combat medic, was freed as part of a prisoner exchange in October 2022.