Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that when Ukraine speaks with partners about how to end the war, it talks about the release of prisoners as one of the first steps.
Zelenskyy said this at the conference "Hope, Struggle, Return - Three Years", reports UNN.
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This Wednesday was very positive news for all of us in Ukraine, we managed to return home from Russian captivity another 197 of our people. Hundreds of thousands of posts on social networks, all messages in our media about the return of our guys testify to how Ukrainians, how they wait, how they respect, how we are happy to see our own. We remember everyone who is in captivity. About all our military, about all our civilians. We are looking for information, we are looking for confirmation about everyone who may be held by the Russians.
He noted that the Coordination Headquarters has been working for more than three years, almost all the time of this war – all the services that return prisoners. Ukraine managed to return 4,306 Ukrainians from captivity.
We will return everyone. Every negotiation of mine, all meetings with our partners who can help, this is a mandatory question about Ukrainians, about our prisoners. Now, when we talk to the American side and our other partners about how to end the war, we talk about the release of prisoners as one of the first steps. We believe that this should definitely be
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Ukraine returned 175 Ukrainian defenders from Russian captivity. Another 22 defenders are returning home thanks to measures outside of exchanges. Among them are soldiers who defended the country, including at "Azovstal".