Zelensky announces the release of ten civilians held by Russia

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June 28 () –

The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, announced this Friday the release of ten civilians who until now were in the hands of Russia, five of whom had been detained in Belarus, and thanked all those who have collaborated in this delivery. , among those cited by the Vatican.

“We have managed to free ten more people from Russian captivity, despite all the difficulties,” Zelensky said on his social networks, where he called for continued work to recover all those prisoners who are still being held.

Among the people benefiting from this latest delivery are a Tatar leader arrested in 2021 in the Crimean peninsula, two civilians detained since 2017 and 2018 and two clerics arrested in Berdiansk, in the southeast of Ukraine, “for resisting the occupation” . The list is completed with six other civilians “captured in Belarus, according to Zelensky.

These are therefore cases prior – at least for the most part – to the beginning of the military invasion ordered on Ukraine by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in February 2022.