The Defense Ministry said the Russian soldiers exchanged today had been captured in Russia’s Kursk region.
OR Russia announced today that it had exchanged 103 prisoners of war with Ukraine, including Russian soldiers captured during the Ukrainian offensive in the region Kurskwhile o Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskHe confirmed that Kiev welcomed 103 soldiers as part of this second exchange between the two countries in two days.
The United Arab Emirates state news agency WAM he said on his part that the country mediated for the exchange to take place noting that this was the eighth such mediation.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the information about “mediation efforts” by the UAE.
“All Russian soldiers (s.s.: being exchanged) are currently in Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance,” the ministry added.
The Ukrainian offensive that began on August 6 in the Russian border region of Kursk caught Moscow by surprise, and Kiev claimed to have captured hundreds of Russian soldiers.
According to Russian media, these detainees are mainly draftees and border guards. Russian conscripts do not fight in Ukraine, but perform their mandatory one-year military service on national soil and generally have no real military experience.
On August 24, Russia and Ukraine announced that they had carried out, also brokered by the United Arab Emirates, an exchange of 230 prisoners, including Russian soldiers captured in Kursk.
Source :Skai
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