Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said that 130 Ukrainians have returned from Russian captivity after a new swap.

"Big Easter prisoner swap. We return 130 our people. It has been held in several stages in the recent few days. Servicemen, border guards, national guards, sailors, employees of the State Protection Department… Privates and sergeants who were captured in Bakhmut, Soledar, Zaporizhia, Kherson directions. Our people are returning home," he said on the Telegram channel on Sunday.

"The lives of our people is our highest value. 'Heroes must stay alive,' that is what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy always says, and our team, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, carries out his task. The task is simple: return everyone," Yermak said.

"And we will return them," he said.

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said that 92 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 20 territorial defense fighters, eleven National Guard servicemen, three border guards, two representatives of the Ukrainian Navy, and two employees of the State Special Transport Service returned to Ukraine as a result of the prisoner swap with Russia.

Forty-eight of 130 Ukrainian defenders released on Sunday were considered to be missing. Part of the released prisoners have injuries, multiple concussions and amputated limbs.

"Also, two brothers, who fought near Bakhmut, have been released from captivity. The oldest released defender has turned 58, the youngest is 21," it said on the Telegram channel.