Among the 270 Ukrainian prisoners who returned home on Saturday, April 19, there were mother and son - Margarita Vinograms and her son Ruslan. They were captured together in May 2022 in Mariupol when they left Azovstal. It was then that they saw each other for the last time, reports the suspension.

It is noted that after they were captured, Margarita and Ruslan did not know anything about each other's fate. Have not yet seen on the bus.

22-year-old Ruslan, a fighter of the 53rd separate mechanized brigade, believed that Margarita was already at large, and wrote to her letters. And then I saw my mother on the bus when they went to exchange.

" You go free and hug children, hug relatives... And then, when the rise at six in the morning - you understand that this is a dream... and it is very difficult. And today I met him. And I say: ‘If I dream of it, don't be a wake! ’"

April 19 mother and son were able to hug for the first time in three years. Now they are waiting for a meeting with relatives.

Recall that on Saturday Ukraine and Russia conducted the exchange of prisoners through the mediation of the UAE. . Among them are fighters of the National Guard of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service and border guards who defended Mariupol and other directions in the Donetsk, Kherson region, Zaporozhye, Luhansk region.

Earlier, on March 19, 197 Ukrainian troops returned from Russian captivity.