According to the latest news from foreign media, although Russia was the initiator of the war in Ukraine, Russia has been adopting a relatively restrained approach since the war began, and even provided a large amount of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. It’s just that war is ruthless, and there are bound to be casualties in wars, and prisoners of war are inevitable. In this war, both the Russian army and the Ukrainian army captured many prisoners of war from the other side.
At the end of June, Russia issued a notice. This notice clearly stated that the Russian army had completed its mission on Snake Island and decided to evacuate all Russian troops here. At the same time, Russia also made a statement to the international community that Russia will not set up obstacles to the efforts of the United Nations to ensure the export of Ukrainian agricultural products. Because Russia has never blocked the export of Ukrainian agricultural products, the food crisis is all Ukraine's unilateral hype.
Although Ukraine and Russia have not really stopped fighting, and there are still many contradictions and conflicts between the two sides, news recently came out that Russia and Ukraine will exchange 144 soldiers. At the end of May, Russia and Ukraine conducted the largest prisoner exchange. Among the Ukrainian prisoners of war released by Russia, 95 were from the Azov Steel Plant garrison in Mariupol, 43 of whom belonged to the "Azov Battalion" member.
Recently, Russian official Konashenkov publicly stated that the president has issued an order to exchange prisoners of war mainly to protect the lives, health and freedom of soldiers as much as possible, and the main members of this exchange are all soldiers from Russia As well as military personnel of the two armed forces of Donetsk and Lugansk.
In fact, this is not the first exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine, but the 12th round of exchanges. At first, the two sides only exchanged the bodies of the fallen. As the war continued, some injured soldiers were inevitably captured by the other side, so the two sides exchanged injured soldiers; of course, some of them Soldiers became prisoners of war when they were healthy and still capable of fighting, and these healthy soldiers were also given the opportunity to exchange.
However, some analysts believe that the exchange of prisoners of war between the two countries appears to be an equal exchange on the surface, but in fact both sides have their own small calculations, because the two countries have different views on the current war situation they are facing. Facing a battlefield full of smoke, coupled with Western countries controlling the public opinion circle and fabricating false information, it is easy to confuse the audience and make it difficult for bystanders to understand the true thoughts of the two countries. The exchange of prisoners of war can provide the outside world with an opportunity to understand the true intentions of both parties.
It is understood that in this large-scale exchange of prisoners of war, most of the prisoners exchanged were injured Russian or Ukrainian soldiers. Prior to this, Russia publicly stated that the number of Ukrainian soldiers captured on the battlefield reached about 6,500. Although there had been 11 rounds of exchanges before, the scale of the exchanges was relatively small, and this time it was the largest exchange of prisoners of war since the beginning of the war.
Among the Ukrainian prisoners of war released by the Russian army, the oldest is 65 years old and the youngest is 19 years old. Since these prisoners of war either suffered gunshot wounds or were hit by shrapnel when they were captured, or were injured or burned by bombs, etc., it is necessary to provide timely treatment to these prisoners of war and provide them with psychological counseling.
Among the many Ukrainian prisoners of war who were released, the most eye-catching ones were the military personnel who were captured during the Azov Steel Plant War. The war lasted for more than a month and ended with Ukraine's defeat and the loss of many Ukrainian military personnel. Surrender leads to the end. After the Russian army took over the steel plant, the Ukrainian side carried out multiple rescues of captured military personnel.
However, no matter what methods Ukraine used, they were ultimately unable to successfully rescue these prisoners of war. The capture of the defenders in the steel plant caused heavy losses to Ukraine and seriously affected the morale of the Ukrainian army. In order to boost morale, Zelensky naturally hopes to rescue the military personnel arrested at the steel plant, especially members of the Azov Battalion.
Today, the two sides are conducting a large-scale exchange of captured personnel, including 43 members of the Azov Battalion. This is the result that Zelensky has longed for. He not only strongly praised this prisoner exchange, but also exaggerated it to the outside world. Ukrainian prisoners of war will be able to return home. Compared with Ukraine, Russia's exchanges this time are more valuable personnel such as senior officials.
