Russia’s Ministry of Defence has reported exchanging POWs with Ukraine; the respective statement is published on the ministry’s Telegram channel.

According to the Russian ministry, 20 servicemen were returned to Russia. “All the liberated servicemen are provided with the necessary psychological and medical aid. They will be delivered to Russian Defence Ministry's healthcare institutions as soon as possible to continue their treatment and rehabilitation,” the statement reads.

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reports that 20 Ukrainian servicemen have been returned home.

“We managed to release 20 people from captivity. Fourteen of them are soldiers of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, four are fighters of the Territorial Defence Forces, there’s one agent of the National Guard of Ukraine and one soldier of Ukraine’s Navy.

“There are people who were kept in Olenivka, on the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Currently, the fellows are being examined by doctors, all of them are happy to be back on home soil,” he wrote in a Telegram post.

Yermak’s Telegram post

Two days ago, 11 October, Yermak said that 32 POWs had been returned to Ukraine during a prisoner exchange. According to him, the men in question are soldiers and officers of Ukraine’s Armed Forces; many of them were previously declared missing in action. The dead body of Dmytro Fialka, an academy coach for FC Dynamo Lviv who had been killed in action in early September, was also returned. Yermak did not specify who the servicemen had been exchanged for.

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Also on 11 October, Ukraine’s Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories announced that an exchange of dead bodies had occurred. Ukraine managed to return the bodies of its servicemen who had been killed in the Olenivka prison massacre.

The Ministry referred to the latest negotiations as “ultra-difficult”. Russia did not make any comment on the prisoner exchange.

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