Has someone got a reasoning for this? It could make prisoner exchange more difficult in the future and while I am sure these guys really wanted to come back, having another few months in Turkiye was not necessarily a bad fate.
Is it that prisoner exchange are now much more in favour of Ukraine that they can do this?
I don’t think it’ll make things more difficult. Throughout the war prisoner exchanges has continued between the two. I don’t see this changing too much.
Zelenskiy brings Azovstal commanders back to Ukraine from Turkey
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-brings-home-azovstal-commanders-released-turkey-2023-07-08/
Has someone got a reasoning for this? It could make prisoner exchange more difficult in the future and while I am sure these guys really wanted to come back, having another few months in Turkiye was not necessarily a bad fate.
Is it that prisoner exchange are now much more in favour of Ukraine that they can do this?
I don’t think it’ll make things more difficult. Throughout the war prisoner exchanges has continued between the two. I don’t see this changing too much.
I’m glad to know of their return. These men are-were commanders and thus, high-value POWs. I assume Russia is very salty about this.