Go to the media bankServicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, DPR and LPR released from the captivity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Screenshot of the video. Archival photoMOSCOW, September 22The referendum could complicate the exchange of prisoners, so they were in a hurry to hold it before the vote, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin. «This process (the exchange of prisoners — ed.) will be complicated, which is why we were in a hurry … approved the framework of equal exchanges, because we needed to have time to get as many of our guys out as possible, who are being held in the Ukrainian punishment cell,» Pushilin said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Pushilin explained the principle of the exchange of prisoners with Ukraine 56 people were released, 55 of them are servicemen, five of them are from Donbass, the rest are servicemen of the RF Armed Forces. He also noted that the 56th exchanged is Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
