The number of captured military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is more than 3.5 thousand. This is the reason for the Ukrainian Government’s “establishment of facts of deprivation of liberty, ” reports TASS.
In a message published on the website of the Ukrainian Council of Ministers, it was said: “The fact that 4 thousand 337 people (3 thousand 574 military and 763 civilians) were deprived of their freedom was determined.”
Previously captured Ukrainian soldier Valery Vavko said Ukrainian officials do not want to exchange their wounded soldiers in Russian captivity, TASS said.
Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Vladimir Leech statedHe said that he rejected the exchange offer and decided to stay and live in Russia.
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 was carried out in Kiev. Later, relatives of missing and captured Ukrainian soldiers came to Independence Square.
Previously three fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine swam past Dnieper and surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces.