Some 169 National Guardsmen from Chornobyl NPP are still in Russia’s captivity

Some 169 officers of the National Guard of Ukraine, who guarded the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, are in captivity by Russia, negotiations are underway on their exchange, Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskyy has said.

“Unfortunately, there are many members of the National Guard in captivity who were at Chornobyl nuclear power plant, and then were taken out. Some 169 National Guardsmen. Some of them are on the territory of the Russian Federation, some are on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. But we are now negotiating to make an exchange, so that our guys will definitely return to Ukraine,” Monastyrskyy said at a briefing for journalists in Chornobyl.

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