More than 2,500 Ukrainians have been repatriated through the exchange of prisoners of war

BY A STAFF REPORTER: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that 2,526 Ukrainians have been returned in prisoner of war exchanges since the start of the Russian invasion.  Russia and Ukraine exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war Sunday, according to statements from officials in Moscow and Kyiv.

Ukraine’s 95 returnees included prisoners of war captured on Snake Island and from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, among a number of different locations, according to presidential aide Andrii Yermak.

"Every time we bring our people back from Russian captivity, we remember our fundamental goal: we will not leave anyone of ours, nothing of Ukraine to the enemy," Zelensky said.