According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency and TASS, Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian negotiation team with Ukraine, stated that Kyiv has accepted only two prisoners from a list of one thousand as part of a prisoner exchange agreement.
Medinsky wrote on his Telegram channel: “Another exchange. The Russian Defense Ministry returned 84 Russian soldiers from Ukrainian territory in exchange for 84 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Our soldiers are back home.”
He added: “However, out of the thousand prisoners-including a list published by RT-who appealed to Volodymyr zelenskyy, the Ukrainian side accepted only two: Oleksandr Boychuk, born October 14, 1976, and Volodymyr Fedorenko, born Febuary 16, 1982. Perhaps they fear these individuals have completely changed their views while in Russian captivity!”
On August 6, the Arshatoudi TV network released a letter signed by one thousand Ukrainian prisoners whom their authorities had removed from the exchange roster.
The captives addressed Zelenskyy in this petition demanding an “honest exchange” of prisoners and condemned Kyiv’s selective release policy limited to just fifty to one hundred people per month.
During the third direct round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine hosted in Istanbul last July,both sides agreed on exchanging 1,200 prisoners each.
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