Captured before 2022: 10 Ukrainians were returned from Russian captivity - Zelensky

Despite all the difficulties," said Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to him, the deputy chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Jelly was returned, who was captured in 2021 in the temporarily occupied Crimea. In addition, Civilian Olena Pech and Valery Matyushenko, who were captured from 2017-2018, returned home.

They also returned from the Russian captivity of priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Bohdan Gelta and Ivan Levitsky, their enemy seized in Berdyansk Zaporizhzhya region because of resistance. Five more civilians were captured and deprived of freedom in Belarus - Mykola Shvets, Natalia Zakharenko, Pavel Kuprienko, Lyudmila Goncharenko and Kateryna Bryukhanov. "All of them are already released and at home - in Ukraine.

Thank you to everyone who helped! Thank you to our team who deals with the captives. I also want to note the efforts of the Vatican to return home these people," the President said and added that he added that All Ukrainians will necessarily be released from the Russian captivity. According to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmitry Lubin, Ukraine is constantly working on all citizens returning home.

"Today, the historic return of civilians of Ukraine, which has been held by the Russian Federation for years," he said. We will remind, on June 25, 90 soldiers were returned from the Russian captivity. Among which were the defenders of "Azovstal" and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. On June 26, the representative of the GUR IU Andriy Yusov noted that the 53rd exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was not completed.