Five territorial defence fighters for one Russian officer: prisoner exchange in Sumy region

Roman Petrenko – Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 15:33

In Krasnopillya, a Russian military convoy arrived to exchange prisoners with Ukraine through the "Green Corridor". Five Ukrainian territorial defence fighters were exchanged for one Russian officer.

Source: Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Dmytro Zhyvytsky, on Telegram

Details: Zhyvytsky stressed that the green corridor [safe passage] was organised by presidential decree of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In Zhyvytsky’s words: "The first exchange of prisoners in the Sumy region has just taken place! We exchanged five of our people from territorial defence for one Russian military police officer."

More details: The list of territorial defence fighters released from enemy captivity:

• Dmytro Olehovych Kvitchenko, born in 1985, Trostyanets’
• Valeriy Semenovych Pozniak, born in 1965, Vorozhba, Bilopil’ district
• Igor Vladimirovich Mokrenko, born in 1969
• Andrey Vyacheslavovich Frolkov, born in 1964, Sumy
• Oleg Viktorovich Solonar, born in 1974, Sumy