The head of RT Simonyan spoke about Ukrainian prisoners whom Kyiv does not want to change
The editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel Margarita Simonyan published a list of Ukrainian prisoners of war whom Kyiv refuses to exchange.
The list she provided is called “List of 500” – it indicates the corresponding number of full names, as well as their dates of birth. Separately, Simonyan showed a list of 38 captured military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, agreed with the Kyiv side. According to her, it includes those who were personally selected by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, in particular representatives of the Azov brigade (included in the list of terrorist organizations and banned in Russia).
The editor-in-chief of RT previously noted that Ukraine has not wanted to take all these prisoners for four months. She also believes that wives, mothers and other Ukrainian citizens “will be interested in familiarizing themselves” with this information.
The last prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine took place in February
On February 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced an exchange of prisoners with Ukraine according to the 100-100 formula. The Russian military returned from territory controlled by Kyiv as a result of the negotiation process. The released fighters were taken to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation.
Prior to this, the exchange of prisoners of war between Moscow and Kiev took place on January 31. Then 195 people returned to Russia. The same number of prisoners were transferred to Ukraine.
The possibility of exchanging prisoners in the “all for all” format was appreciated
State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliev previously assessed the possibility of exchanging prisoners with Ukraine in the “all for all” format. According to him, such an exchange would not be equivalent, since there are more Ukrainian soldiers in Russian captivity than Russians in Ukraine.
At the same time, he noted that the most optimal and humane exchange scheme would be another exchange scheme – all Russian prisoners for the same number of Ukrainian ones.
Russia will take all our soldiers from Ukrainian captivity, in exchange we will give back exactly the same number of Ukrainian prisoners of war
Pope Francis took the initiative to exchange prisoners in an “all for all” format. He made this proposal on the occasion of Easter.
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