President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is doing everything possible to return foreign soldiers who fought in the Ukrainian army from Russian captivity and does not distinguish between them and its citizens.

“Yes, this is a war, and you understand that there are thousands of captured Ukrainians today. There are guys from Great Britain, there are also guys from the USA, who, unfortunately, were captured. We treat them the same as we treat Ukrainians. What can the president do? Now at the intelligence level, we are negotiating with the other side holding our prisoners.. We talk about Ukrainians the same way we talk about guys from the USA or guys from Britain.. Our task is to free all our soldiers,"

He confirmed that negotiations on the release of foreign military personnel serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ongoing, including right now..

“Right now, negotiations are underway at the level of our intelligence. ... The question is that without releasing the British or Americans, Russia simply shows that it is these states that communicate with it, communicate with it, which, due to this aggression of the Russian Federation, will rightly isolate its military-political leadership. But they were the first to start this isolation,” the President said..

Addressing the US citizens in English, Zelensky noted that the Americans in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are just as heroes for him as the Ukrainians, because they sacrifice the most valuable thing for Ukraine - their lives..

“I am sure that we will return them, and they will return to their families, children, parents, relatives. And it is an honor for me that there are people in the world who are not afraid, came and supported us and our sovereignty and independence,” the head of state added..

He thanked the Americans who support Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

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Recall, on June 16, it became known that two Americans, Alexander John-Robert and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, who were fighting together with Ukrainian troops north of Kharkov, were captured.

It should be noted that the Kremlin has already stated that they consider the captured US citizens who fought for Ukraine in the foreign legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be criminals and want to punish. They also claim that the Geneva Convention does not apply to them..