I am 215 prisoners released in exchange for the pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and other 55 Russian soldiers. In a video released by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, some of the prisoners can be seen. Among the liberated fighters Commander of the Azov Battalion who for weeks defended the Azovstal Steelworks in Mariupol, the commander Denis Prokopenko “Redis” and his deputy Svyatoslav Palamar “Kalina”. There is also the press secretary and photographer from Azovstal Dmytro “Orest” Kozatsky. The sister said in a comment on public radio Suspilni that she called him after his release: “He had a very, very, very happy voice. I don’t even have words”.
The mother of “Azovian” Ilya SamoilenkoHe announced his son’s release: “Ilya will come back when the roses bloom”. Now I say that the roses are in place.” Another Azovstal defender is also free, Mykhailo Dianov photographed multiple times of Orestes with a bandaged arm and a swollen hand, exhausted but smiling while looking at the camera: his picture went around the world in the April days when the Azov regiment was defending the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Dianov’s release was confirmed by his sister Alyona: “He called and said he had been swapped with other prisoners. what are my feelings Boundless joy,” he said. Confirmed release of the pregnant doctor Maryana Mamonova: “Today we got back Maryana Mamonova, she is our heroine who will soon become a mother”. The head of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine Denys Monastyrskyi He said: “That was the hardest exchange I’ve ever watched in my life. But of course this is a great victory for Ukraine”.
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