Last night, Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, with drones for more than three hours, where anti-aircraft systems intercepted all unmanned aerial vehiclesbut a woman was injured.
The head of the kyiv Regional Military Administration, Sergui Popkonoted on his Telegram channel that the attack occurred from different directions and lasted more than three and a half hours.
The defense forces neutralized all Russian drones that threatened the capital, but in the Dniprovsky district a young woman suffered serious injuries in a lower extremity.
According to the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitchkothe woman is currently undergoing surgery in a hospital in the capital after being hit by a fragment of a drone shot down through her balcony window.
Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners
Russia and Ukraine carried out another exchange of 95 prisoners of war on each side with the mediation of the United Arab Emirates, among which is the human rights activist Maksim Butkevichwho enlisted in the Ukrainian Army in 2022.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyreported on his Telegram channel return home of soldiers who They defended Mariupol, the Azovstal steelworks, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov, kyiv, Chernigiv and Kherson.
The Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War of the Ukrainian Presidency explained that the peculiarity of this exchange lies in the fact that “many Ukrainians who were sentenced to long prison terms or even life imprisonment in their own land have returned to their homes.” “, occupied by Russia.
Among those freed from Russian captivity -69 sergeants and soldiers and 26 officers– there are national guards, sailors, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards and representatives of other units of the Security and Defense Forces.
Among those released is also Maksim Butkevich, a human rights defender and co-founder of the ZIMA Center for Human Rightsaccording to his father.
In 2023 it was sentenced by Russia in the occupied Luhansk region to 13 years in prison for allegedly injuring two women during their stay in Siverskodonetsk by firing a grenade launcher at the entrance to a residential building.
This is the 58th exchange organized by Ukraine, which has so far managed to free 3,767 people from Russian captivity.
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