An exchange of 116 Ukrainian prisoners and 63 Russians was signed between Moscow and Kiev. This exchange was proudly announced by the Ukrainian presidency, which shared photos and videos of the return of its released soldiers.These are the defenders of Mariupol, Kherson resistance fighters, snipers around Bakhmut and our other heroes.said one of Zelensky’s assistants. This is the second such action between Kyiv and Moscow since the beginning of the year.
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The bodies of two Britons, Christopher Perry and Andrew Bagshaw, who were killed in Ukraine, where they had gone to volunteer, were also found as part of this prisoner swap between Kiev and Moscow, Ukrainian authorities said.
“We managed to retrieve the bodies of the dead foreign volunteersAndri Yermak, the head of the administration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said. The men, aged 28 and 48, were killed while attempting a humanitarian evacuation from the town of Soledar, the site of intense fighting in early January and largely destroyed by bombing, Christopher Perry’s family confirmed through the UK Foreign Office in late January. .
They were missing for several weeks, and the leader of the Wagner group, Eugenie Prigogine, stated on January 11 that his fighters found the body of one of them in Soledar.
The Ukrainian army admitted on January 25 that it had surrendered to the Russian “Soledar”, which is located in the east of the country not far from Bakhmut, which became the epicenter of the fighting almost a year after the invasion of the country began. The Russians insisted on its capture for two weeks. The UK Foreign Office was not immediately available for comment.
Source: Le Figaro
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