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Russia and Ukraine have conducted a major prisoner-of-war exchange a week after a previous swap was prevented when a Russian Il-76 transport plane was shot down and exploded near the border between the two countries.

Both sides said about 200 prisoners each had been exchanged on Wednesday, although they disagreed about the exact figures.

“Our people are back, 207 of them,” Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote. “We return them home no matter what.”

He published photos showing Ukrainian soldiers hugging, making telephone calls and crying after the swap. Many were holding yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flags.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

As Ukraine celebrates their returning heroes, Russia will treat their returning Russians as criminals for allowing themselves to be captured. There is a stark, comic-book style contrast between the good guys and the bad guys.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How do you know how Russia treats the returning POW’s? Source?

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or this:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree toughening penalties for voluntary surrender to enemy forces, desertion and refusal to fight by up to 10 years in prison

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Seems like they still do that then.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

In 1995, Russia equalized the status of former prisoners of war with that of other veterans.

Seems like they don’t do that anymore.

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