On August 14, Ukraine and the Russian Federation held another exchange, with 84 prisoners returning home. This exchange was special: among those returned are civilians, those enslaved since 2014, and defenders of Mariupol. All of these are very problematic categories of people for exchanges, and Russia has been demonstratively silent about their fate for years.

But the most difficult category of prisoners of war is the captured Azov people. Russia has identified them as the "main enemy" in this war. They were not included in this exchange again.

The exchange of prisoners was the only concrete result of the agreements reached between Russia and Ukraine on June 2 in Istanbul. Since then, ten exchanges have taken place, resulting in the release of more than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen.

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