Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed the return of Ukrainian prisoners from Russia, together with Nariman Dzhelyal, a frontrunner of the Crimean Tatars.
“Ten civilians, plus 90 soldiers were released this week,” Zelensky mentioned in a video message. This introduced to three,310 prisoners launched to Ukraine from Russian prisons, he mentioned.
“We have to find all our people and return them to Ukraine, every one of them in prison or deported – adults and children, soldiers and civilians,” he mentioned.
Dzhelyal was among the many 10 civilians returned on Friday. Zelensky held temporary talks with the Tatar chief on Saturday. They final met in 2021.
Shortly after that assembly and earlier than the Russian invasion of February 2022, Dzhelyal was arrested in Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. He was subsequently sentenced to 17 years in jail after being discovered responsible of blowing a gasoline pipeline.
Among these launched had been two monks of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
No info has been launched on whether or not Russian prisoners had been launched by the Ukrainians in return.
The final prisoner change between Kiev and Moscow just a few days in the past included a metropolitan of the pro-Russian Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who obtained a ornament from Patriarch Kirill on his arrival in Moscow.
Source: www.anews.com.tr