According to the government in Kyiv, Russia is holding around 700 Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of civilians in captivity. “They caught more than 1,000 people,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Ukrainian television today. Among them are about 500 women.
For its part, Ukraine captured around 700 Russian soldiers.
Vereshchuk urged Russia to unconditionally release the civilians. Both sides have exchanged prisoners several times since the war began more than seven weeks ago.
The exact numbers of how many people are currently being held are unclear. According to Russian media, the separatists in Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine alone captured more than 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers. More than 1,000 marines are said to have surrendered in the besieged port city of Mariupol. Ukraine denies this.
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