Russia said on Sunday that he had exchanged another 303 Ukrainian prisoners of war for the same number of Russian soldiers held by kyiv, the last phase of the greatest exchange between countries at war.
“According to the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached in Istanbul on May 16, the Russian and Ukrainian parties (during the weekend) have carried out the exchange of 1,000 people for 1,000 people,” said the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
Zensky confirmed that the exchange was complete.
Both parties received 390 people in the first stage on Friday and 307 in the second stage on Saturday.
Russia has indicated that it will send its terms to a peace agreement to Ukraine after the exchange, without saying what those terms would be.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, congratulated the two countries on Friday for the exchange.
“This could lead to something big,” Hey wrote on his social platform of truth.
Trump’s efforts to negotiate fire in the greatest conflict in Europe since War II until now is not successful, despite his promise to quickly finish the fighting.
An AFP reporter saw some of the formally captive Ukrainian soldiers arrive at a hospital in the northern cernihiv region, demacred but smiling and greeting the crowds that were waiting outside.
“It’s simply crazy. Crazy feelings,” said Konstantin Steblev, a 31 -year -old soldier, at AFP on Friday when he returned to the Ukrainian floor after three years in captivity.
One of the soldiers who was previously captive, Viktor Syvak, 58, told AFP that it was difficult to express his emotional return home.
Captured in the Port City of Mariupol in Ukraine, he had been a hero for 37 months and 12 days.
“It’s impossible to describe. I can’t put it in words. It’s very happy,” he said.
