“I hope this will happen next week. According to the lists, you understand, there will be an exchange, let’s say, whom we can pick up, we will take it. And to give it the same,” he said.
Budanov added that he did not see any special problems in order for the exchange to take place.
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The fact that in the negotiations in Istanbul a delegation from Kyiv and Moscow agreed on exchanging prisoners in the format “1000 by 1000”, They reported both the Turkish Foreign Ministry and the Russian side. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umarov did not indicate the exact exchange periods, but noted that he would take place “in the near future.”
The representative of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Vadim Skibitsky said on May 16 that Ukraine began to work out lists of prisoners of war, which will be returned as part of the exchange in the “1000 per 1000” format.
