The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that fifty-five Russian soldiers have returned to the country after the largest prisoner exchange with Ukraine since the start of the operation in the former Soviet republic.
“All military personnel arrived on the territory of the Russian Federation by military aircraft and were taken to the ministry’s medical facilities,” the government said in a statement.
The text, delivered on Wednesday, does not mention Viktor Medvedchuk, a former Ukrainian lawmaker close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Kiev.
“The army has contacted the relatives of the prisoners,” the Russian ministry said, before stating that the released had been given “necessary psychological and medical assistance”.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian government announced a major prisoner swap with Moscow involving 215 Ukrainian military prisoners, including defense commanders at Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said in return Russia rescued 55 prisoners, including former Ukrainian lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk, who is close to Putin and accused of treason in Ukraine.
This Thursday, the Russian military once again accused the Ukrainian government of “continuing its provocations to threaten catastrophe”. […] At the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant”, the largest in Europe.
“On Wednesday, Ukrainian artillery fired 13 howitzers at the town of Energodar (where the plant is located) and the terrain adjacent to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. Said.
According to the ministry, the “radiological situation” in the region is “normal”.
Russia and Ukraine have been making mutual accusations for several months regarding the attacks on the Zaporizhzhia plant and its surroundings.
source: Noticias
