Exchange of Freedom amid the war

Russia and Ukraine have traded many detainees of battle in an arrangement handled by the Unified Middle Easterner Emirates (UAE).

The Russian guard service said it had traded 150 Ukrainian warriors held hostage for an equivalent number of Russian soldiers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy said 189 Ukrainians had gotten back.

He added that those delivered included "protectors of Azovstal and Mariupol", the Chernobyl thermal energy station and Snake Island.

The BBC was available as liberated Ukrainians were brought together with their friends and family at an area in northern Ukraine.

Before they showed up, Alina who was hanging tight for her better half Oleksandr - caught while safeguarding the south-eastern city of Mariupol in 2022 - had destroys streaming her face.

"I have such countless feelings," she said "It's been so troublesome. I simply need to see him."

Delivered detainee Anatoliy, who was caught in the south-eastern city of Mariupol in 2022, told the BBC he was "overpowered by sentiments".

"Say thanks to God this day has come. We're home. Presently we will uphold Ukraine with all that we have," he said.

he Russian guard service in the mean time said recently delivered Russian soldiers were in Belarus and were being allowed clinical help and the opportunity to contact their families.

In a video posted by Russian common liberties chief Tatyana Moskalkova, troopers were seen accumulated before mentors in military and winter clothing.

"Exceptionally soon our folks will embrace their families and companions and commend the New Year on their local land," she said in a going with message.

This was the 59th detainee trade since the full-scale attack started and one of the greatest up to this point.

On the Ukrainian side, those delivered included warriors, line monitors, Public Patrols and Naval force servicemen. Many had been in imprisonment for more than over two years, and Ukrainian authorities said some had gotten back with difficult ailments and wounds.

For certain families, the horrifying vulnerability has reached a conclusion. However, thousands additional Ukrainians stay in imprisonment in Russia and involved pieces of Ukraine.

Authorities in Kyiv enlightened the BBC that dealings concerning detainee trades have become more troublesome as of late - since Russian powers started to make critical advances on the war zone.

kraine doesn't distribute quantities of detainees of war being held by Russia, however the absolute is believed to be more than 8,000.

Denys Prokopenko, authority of Ukraine's twelfth Unique Powers Azov Unit that shielded Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant before it was caught by Russian powers, said on X that 11 of the detachment's men were returned in the trade.

Prokopenko was delivered in a detainee trade in 2022.

Zelensky said two regular citizens caught in Mariupol were additionally among those delivered.

"We are attempting to liberate everybody from Russian imprisonment. This is our objective. We remember anybody," Zelensky said. He posted photographs showing a portion of the traded men sitting on a mentor holding up yellow-and-blue Ukrainian banners.

In May 2022, Russia pronounced triumph following a months-in length fight to vanquish the south-eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, with the last contenders shielding the Azovstal steel plant having given up.

Russian soldiers held onto Chernobyl in the country's north-west toward the start of their attack of Ukraine in February 2022, yet later gave back control of the plant to its representatives.