Ukraine announces that 64 Ukrainians and one American have been released in a prisoner swap with Russia

Sixty-four Ukrainians and one American were freed on Wednesday in a new prisoner exchange between kyiv and Moscow, the Ukrainian presidency announced.

“64 soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces, who fought in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions return home”congratulated himself on Telegram the chief of staff of the presidency, Andri Yermak.

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He specified that an American, suedi murekezi, “he was also released” in the exchange.

The Russian state news agency TASS reported that murekezi he was arrested in June in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine and accused of participating in anti-Russian protests and inciting ethnic hatred.

Citing his lawyer, TASS previously reported that murekezi He was born in Rwanda and moved with his family to the United States in 1994.

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According to the lawyer, Murekezi worked in a nightclub in Kherson and denied that he was a combatant.

Khersoncaptured by Russian forces at the start of the Russian invasion launched in February, was recently retaken by Ukrainian troops and has faced frequent Russian shelling.

Ukrainian authorities have said that the epicenter of the fighting after the recapture of Kherson It is the Donetsk region, where Russian forces have tried to take the city of Bakhmut.

Source: Elcomercio

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