Ukrainian officials do not want to exchange their wounded soldiers in Russian captivity. This view was expressed in an interview TASS stated the captured Ukrainian soldier Valery Vavko.
“I heard that they don’t want to take us for four months. They said it’s because we are the three hundredth [раненые]They don’t want to deal with us. Especially people like me. We are probably not needed,” Vavko said.
The soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine himself was injured in the back, as a result of which the lower part of his body was paralyzed.
He said he was drafted from the city of Khmelnytsky in western Ukraine and served as a driver in the 95th air assault brigade. He was wounded in the fighting near Kremennaya, the Russian army picked him up and provided the necessary assistance.
15 October in Ivano-Frankivsk promotion took placeIncident in which local residents demanded the authorities to bring back Ukrainian soldiers from captivity. About a hundred people participated in it.
A similar promotion at the end of August Held in Kiev. Later, relatives of missing and captured Ukrainian soldiers came to Independence Square.
Previously captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refused to tradeStaying in Russia.