Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced the wonderful news that today, by order of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, the first full-fledged exchange of prisoners of war took place: 10 of our servicemen were taken out for the 10 captured occupiers.
Also, today 11 Russian civilian sailors were sent home, they were rescued from a sunken ship near Odesa.
As a result of this exchange, 19 Ukrainian civilian sailors are returning home from the rescue ship Sapphire, which was captured by the occupiers while trying to take our troops from Zmiinyi Island.