The Government of Ukraine reported this Friday 4,337 Ukrainian citizens remain captives of Russian forcesincluding 763 civilians.
The figures were compiled by a commission that has been working on this matter since November 19, 2022, under the authority of the Ministry for the Reintegration of the Occupied Territories of Ukraine, which was created after the start of the Russian invasion, on February 24. . of that same year.
This commission, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk, reported in turn that 1,953 people have already been releasedaccording to a report published on the Ministry’s page on the social network Facebook.
So far this year, the Ministry of Reintegration has allocated 422 million hryvnias (10.7 million euros) to help those released, as well as the families of the hostages.
Despite the war, Russia and Ukraine appear to have reached an agreement on several issues humanitarian, as exchange of prisoners or delivery of corpses of soldiersas well as about the return of Ukrainian children who were in Russian territory.
Some of these agreements have also been reached through the intermediation of countries such as Turkey, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, although the majority are usually carried out in person between senior officials in various locations such as shared borders or in Istanbul.
Source: TSF
