The commanding officers who defended the Azovstal plant in Mariupol will be returning home from Turkiye where they had been kept after a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky's office announced on July 8, APA reports citing The Kyiv Independent.
The president met with the officers and picked them up during his visit to Turkiye, where he met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.
The officers include Denys Prokopenko, Serhiy Volynskiy, Sviatoslav Palamar, Denys Shleha and Oleh Khomenko, Zelensky said. Previously they had been expected to remain in Turkiye until the end of Russia's war against Ukraine.
Ukraine reached a deal to secure the release of 215 Azovstal defenders from Russian captivity in September.
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