Russian media described how and what prisoners are exchanged for in Donbass
Moscow - Kyiv, September 10 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Russian-French poet Yuri Yurchenko was ransomed from Ukrainian captivity, MK reports. The amount is not named, but the newspaper describes the circumstances of the capture and the terms of ransom accepted during this war.
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Once born in Odessa, a poet, a citizen of Russia and France, a famous playwright, actor, founder of the theater association “Russian Theater Seasons” in Paris, Yuri Yurchenko could not calmly watch from Paris what was happening in his homeland. Having told his wife, the famous French theater actress Dani Kogan, that he was going to a poetry festival in Eastern Ukraine, he went to the southeast.
Yurchenko had a French passport and international peacekeeper accreditation with him. He wanted to convey undistorted information about what is happening today in Donetsk and Lugansk to the European media. He was present when the militia troops retreated from Slavyansk. He was personally acquainted with the head of the DPR Pavel Gubarev and helped him prepare militia websites in French and German.
On August 20, near Ilovaisk, he was captured by the Donbass battalion, where militia captives are treated especially mercilessly. All the time that the 59-year-old poet was with them, he was beaten, not allowed to eat, his leg was broken and his ribs were broken.
France made no effort to free him; the Russian Foreign Ministry acted. It is reported that Yuri was exchanged for two Ukrainian prisoners who ended up with the militia.
Meanwhile, MK hints, prisoners have long become a commodity in this war. “SBU officers specially go to volunteer battalions: Donbass, Aidar, to people from the Right Sector, their goal is to select the most interesting prisoners of war,” the newspaper writes. Then they ask for either a ransom of up to $100 thousand, or the necessary military supplies - ammunition, medicine, food, etc.
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