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| Head of the GUR Budanov announced a possible exchange of prisoners of war with Russia |
| 2024-01-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Maybe this time Ukrainian AA can hold their fire? [Regnum] A new exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine may take place in the near future, said on Saturday, January 27, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov. “I am sure that the exchange will take place in the near future,” the head of the Ukrainian department said on the “We are Ukraine” TV channel, a segment of which was published by the publication “Strana. ua" in its Telegram channel. Let us recall that the last exchange, scheduled for January 24, was disrupted due to a strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on an Il-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense, on board which were 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Nine more people were also killed in that incident, including six crew members. According to the Russian defense department, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down an Il-76 from an anti-aircraft missile system from the territory of the Kharkov region. The launch of two Ukrainian missiles was observed by radar equipment of the Russian Aerospace Forces. As Regnum reported, on January 24, Ukrainian intelligence representative Andrei Yusov confirmed that an exchange of prisoners of war was planned for that day. At the same time, the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate avoided a direct answer to the question that there were Ukrainian prisoners of war in the downed Il-76 Ukrainian Armed Forces. |
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