Image credit: The TV channel Belarus One
MINSK, 6 March (BelTA) – Belarus offers a platform for exchanging prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine. The second stage of a POW exchange took place on 6 March. As many as 500 Ukrainian military personnel were exchanged for the same number of Russian ones. Russian soldiers explained who waits for them at home on the air of the TV channel Belarus One, BelTA has learned.
Belarus once again offered a site for the POW exchange. The people were brought to the Belarusian-Ukrainian border crossing Novaya Guta in Gomel Oblast where the exchange happened. The military personnel were examined by medics. They were given meals and some time to rest and then they were sent home. Certainly, the first phone calls were placed to their families to tell the loved ones that they were coming back. Nobody could stop their tears.
One of the Russian soldiers said that his sister waits for him at home. He and his sister grew up in an orphanage together and she supported him in everything. The guy was going to gift her her portrait that he had made himself. Another serviceman was glad that he would get back home just in time to congratulate all the women on the International Women’s Day. He will also celebrate his birthday in late March.
About 60 POW exchanges have taken place in Belarus’ territory over the course of four years. The number of POWs varied from 15 to 1,000.
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