55 people were released from Ukrainian captivity the day before (5 of them from Donbass, 50 — are Russian servicemen). Viktor Medvedchuk was also released from captivity, according to the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
«<…>Only in front of my eyes, within the framework of the Minsk process, outside of it, with the participation of Medvedchuk, more than a 1000 of our guys were released. Who simply could not survive, given the conditions in which they were kept. In fact, the dungeons of the Gestapo. <…> Our task was to return as many our guys as possible as soon as possible» Pushilin said.
He added that as a result of the exchange, 215 prisoners were returned to Ukraine, some of them are representatives of the national battalions.
The Kremlin has not yet commented on information about the exchange of prisoners with Ukraine, including whether Medvedchuk was among them, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.