Prisoner exchange: Ukraine brings home 270 service members and civilians
As part of the prisoner exchange, 270 Ukrainians returned to Ukraine, including 261 service members and nine civilians.
Who returned home from russian captivity
The exchange resulted in the release of service members of the National Guard of Ukraine, among them Azov warriors, as well as personnel from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, the Territorial Defence Forces, the Navy, the Ground Forces, the Air Assault Forces, and the State Special Transport Service.
Bringing our people home is the joint work of a large team. Behind every release are the efforts of many people, coordination, and daily work that does not stop for a single day. We remember everyone who is still held in russian captivity. We are fighting for every one of them, to bring all our people home.
Most of those freed had been held in russian captivity since 2022.
Defenders of Mariupol among those freed
A significant number of those freed defended Mariupol. Also returning home are warriors who defended Ukraine in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, and Chernihiv sectors, as well as defenders of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
As previously reported, the last prisoner exchange took place on August 19, 2026, when 103 Ukrainian warriors were freed.
