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The wife of a serviceman was returned from Russian captivity in 2022. January 14...

Azovstal defender, whose family was killed by a Russian rocket in the Dnieper from captivity

The wife of a serviceman was returned from Russian captivity in 2022. January 14, with her younger daughter and mother of her husband, she was killed in rubble. On Wednesday, on January 31, Ukraine conducted a large exchange of prisoners, which resulted in the return of the junior sergeant Zakhar, who got to the occupiers with his wife after evacuation from Azovstal in Mariupol of Donetsk region. This was reported at the coordination headquarters on the management of prisoners of war on Telegram.

"From the hostile captivity, he managed to save the junior sergeant Zakhar. He fell into the hands of Russian terrorists together with his wife Tatiana after evacuating from Azovstal in May 2022," the message reads. The coordination headquarters stressed that the woman managed to exchange and return to Ukraine in less than half a year. She lived with two daughters in the Dnieper, but on January 14, a Russian rocket hit the high -rise building where the family lived.

The military died with her younger daughter and mother of her husband. The older 19-year-old daughter Ruslan is waiting for dad's return. Doctors who rescued brothers and civilians at the Mariupol Metallurgical Plant and Azovstali were returned from Russian captivity. In addition, they exchanged a senior lieutenant who defended Ukraine since 2014, passed Debaltseve and was twice awarded the Order of Courage.

The defender of the Snake Island and two native brothers - Anatoly and Paul's military were also liberated. From the beginning of a full -scale invasion of captivity of the Russian Federation, 3035 Ukrainian military managed to return. On January 31, Ukraine returned 207 Ukrainian defenders from Russian captivity. We are talking about the military, the National Guard, the State Tax Service, the National Police.