On May 6, another exchange of prisoners took place between Ukraine and Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said..

More than 40 Ukrainians return home: 28 military and 13 civilians.

Among those released from captivity are 11 women, as well as the rector of the temple of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

This is the ninth prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia since the start of a full-scale war.. The first took place on March 24, the eighth on April 30.

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According to Vereshchuk, the Russians are holding in captivity, in addition to the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian priests, journalists, activists, mayors and ordinary civilians.. They are kept in prisons not even on the territory of Ukraine, but in the Kursk, Bryansk and Rostov regions. These people have to sit in the same cells with criminals.