Russia is fundamentally not changing Marines

Over the last 14 months, only one fighter of the 501 battalion of the 36 Brigade of Marines. Russia refuses to return to Ukraine marines - representatives of 501 separate battalion of the Marine infantry 36 brigade. Over the past 14 months, only one 501 battalion fighter has been exchanged. Maria Chernikin's sister of Ukrainian prisoners of war says this in an interview with focus. "It happened on January 3, 2024. And they say, by accident.

I communicate with a psychologist, I say," Hold on, it is impossible to do what you will do if he does not return? "And I have no such thoughts. He will come back and I'll be around, ”she says. Mary's brother - Oleg Nechaev, sailor, driver 501 battalion. From the beginning of a full -scale invasion, Mariupol defended. He was captured on April 4, 2022.

On that day, the Russian media posted a video where several dozen Ukrainian military went with their hands raised, and reported that part of the Marines fighters were captured. Subsequently, it turned out that more than 260 Marines 501 battalions were referred to. "From representatives of state structures I constantly hear that Mariupol defenders are very difficult to change. Representatives of the Azov regiment are also not in the lists.

Perhaps because they were not just the first, Snake defenders were also captured on the first day, but unlike From them, which were isolated on the island, and these were under fire in Mariupol and kept it. ", - says Maria Chernikina. Earlier it was reported that in 2024 there were three exchanges of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine. In particular, on February 8, the Russian Federation returned a hundred defenders. Among them were the defenders of Mariupol.