Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Video footage showed the moment when 10 released prisoners, mediated by Saudi Arabia, arrived between Russia and Ukraine in the capital, Riyadh, on Wednesday evening.
The footage was released by the official Saudi news agency (SPA) of the moment a plane from Russia landed in the Kingdom, then Saudi officials received the prisoners who were released from Russia under an exchange agreement. prisoners with Ukraine.
For her part, British Prime Minister Liz Truss welcomed the release of five British citizens, who she said had been held for months by “Russian-backed agents in eastern Ukraine”.
He thanked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his efforts to secure the release of the detainees and thanked Saudi Arabia for helping to make it happen.
Russia has called for an end to the “brutal exploitation of prisoners of war and civilian detainees for political purposes”.
Earlier, the Saudi Foreign Ministry announced the release of “ten prisoners” of citizens of Morocco, the United States, Britain, Sweden and Croatia.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said: “The authorities concerned in the Kingdom received and transferred them from Russia to the Kingdom and worked to facilitate the procedures for their return to their countries,” according to “SPA”.
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