As part of the extreme exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and Russia, which took place on Wednesday, December 14, our country handed over a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, who was convicted of treason. Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, announced this on the air of the telethon..

He noted that the decision to include this person on the exchange list in a certain way helped to free a citizen of the United States of America from Russian captivity..

“65th is a US citizen, this is a pro-Ukrainian activist who remained in Kherson and was illegally arrested by the occupation authorities. I can reveal such an interesting detail a little..

Today, the Russians in their Telegram channels reported that they took away the priest of the UOC (MP), who in Ukraine received a sentence for high treason. I will say that it was not without his help in this context that a citizen of the United States returned to Ukraine today, and has the opportunity to return home,” Yusov said..

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Earlier, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, said that she sees the possibility of a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war in the “all for all” format between Russia and Ukraine..