On Sunday, January 8, another 50 citizens of Ukraine, defenders from the Armed Forces, the Terrodefense, the National Guard, the Border Service, the Navy and Special Operations Forces, were returned home from Russian captivity, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak said..

Among the returned home defenders of Ukraine 33 officers and 17 privates and sergeants.

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He added that this is not the last exchange - Ukraine will return home all its citizens.

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At the end of the year, Olena Verbytska, the presidential commissioner for ensuring the rights of defenders, said that about 3,400 Ukrainian servicemen are now in captivity, and another 15,000 people are considered missing..

Since the beginning of a full-scale war, Ukraine has managed to return 1,456 people from Russian captivity, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on December 28 during his annual address to the Verkhovna Rada.

After that, on New Year's Eve, another 140 Ukrainians managed to return home..

“Help me find a person” is a phrase that can often be found on social networks. As a result of the shelling, the seizure of territories by the Russians, the evacuation, many Ukrainians lost contact with their loved ones.. In May, Oleksandr Kitral spoke about how the search for such people takes place in the article “War with Russia: how Ukraine searches for the missing during the war”.