Joy as Ukraine brings home hundreds of soldiers in prisoner exchange with Russia

Tamara Ceaikovski

Dozens of released Ukrainian prisoners of war embraced loved ones in emotional reunions... After they were returned from Russian captivity. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said 277 Ukrainian soldiers were returned... In the war's largest exchange on Saturday (19 April). Most Ukrainians were young people born after 2000, Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said. Since Russia's invasion began, a total of 4,552 Ukrainians, both military and civilians,