“I would answer a question with a question: “And if your children were there, husbands, relatives, would you wish to exchange them or not?”
This, probably, was expressed and said by those whose relatives and friends were not in captivity.
Hearing this from your own - “why did you change them” ... Like, why were we rescued or what?
An interesting judgment, ”one of the servicemen who returned home as a result of the exchange shared his opinion.
As the Russian Ministry of Defense previously reported, the exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine in the “144 to 144” format was organized and carried out on the direct instructions of the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, since “life, health, release” of military personnel, fighters of the DPR and LPR, who make up the majority of the returned, — it is "the most important task".
The total number of Ukrainian soldiers held captive by Russian forces exceeds 6,000.
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin noted that "the seriously wounded are being exchanged."
He stressed: "Our guys must be rescued from captivity, fight for everyone."