Seven Ukrainian civilians who had been illegally held in Russian captivity for years have returned home.
According to Ukrinform, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets announced the release on Telegram.
According to the Ombudsman, the release was the result of his direct humanitarian engagement with Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova.
Lubinets thanked the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, and all other agencies involved in the work of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
"The Ukrainians who have returned home are between the ages of 35 and 66. All of them were illegally detained by Russian forces in 2022 during the occupation of Mariupol and parts of the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk regions. In the Kyiv region, they were detained in Bucha district, where the occupying forces committed atrocities in 2022," Lubinets said.
