UKRAINE, Aug 14 — On August 14, Ukraine and Russia conducted the prisoners of war exchange. 84 people, both military personnel and civilians, returned home, some of them were imprisoned since 2014, 2016, and 2017, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine 

It is the 67th round of POWs’ exchange. Zelenskyy said that almost all of them require medical support and significant rehabilitation.

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said that these POWs were detained in the occupied territories even before the Russian full-scale invasion and illegally sentenced to long prison terms ranging from 10 to 18 years.

“One of the freed men spent 4,013 days in captivity. Russians imprisoned him in Donetsk Oblast back in 2014,” said the Coordination Headquarters.

Ukraine also brings home people captured and convicted between 2016 and 2021. Among those freed are three women from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. One of them is a primary school teacher. Russia imprisoned him in 2019.

Zelenskyy and the Coordination Headquarters said that among the military personnel released today are the defenders of Mariupol, the Ukrainian Navy soldiers, and the State Border Guard, including 10 officers.

The youngest released is 26 years old, while the oldest is 74 — he had spent the last seven years, since 2018, in a Russian prison.

The Ukrainian President thanked the Ukrainian team and the UAE international partners for assisting in this exchange.

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