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🇺🇦❤️🩹 270 keep our people at home, — Zelensky confirmed the prisoner exchange
Returning home are National Guard members, including Azov fighters, border guards, territorial defense fighters, servicemen of the Naval Forces, Ground Forces, Air Assault Forces, the State Special Transport Service, as well as nine civilians. Most of them had been in captivity since 2022.
Most of those released are fighters who defended Ukraine in Mariupol. Defenders are also returning from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, and Chernihiv directions. Many were illegally sentenced in Russia. Among those returning are five people who had been considered dead during the Russian terrorist attack in Olenivka in July 2022.