UKRAINE, Mar. 11 — Over four years of work, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War has returned 8,050 Ukrainians from Russian captivity, said the press service of the Headquarters.

The Headquarters was created at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 as a temporary body of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. It coordinates the activities of various government agencies, law enforcement bodies, and public associations on the treatment of prisoners of war.

Since 2022, Ukraine has conducted over 70 prisoner exchanges with the help of the Headquarters. Military personnel and civilians among those who were released.

Ukraine carried out two prisoner-of-war exchanges on Mar. 5 and 6 under the Geneva Conventions, returning 500 people, including 31 from the Kharkiv oblast. 

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