MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova rejected allegations that the Russian side refuses to include Ukrainian servicemen on its lists for prisoner exchanges.

“I heard statements made publicly, and this information was also expressed during those meetings in Montreal, according to which Russia would refuse to include Ukrainian sailors in lists for prisoner exchanges. This is absolutely untrue,” she told a briefing. “We are ready to make these lists public. There are 29 on them. These Ukrainian marines were released by the Russian side during the exchanges.”

According to Zakharova, Russia has repeatedly expressed its willingness to exchange many Ukrainian marines. “But the Kiev regime has little interest in changing this category of citizens, its own soldiers,” she pointed out.

“For example, the 36th Marine Brigade. He surrendered in Mariupol in 2022. I am sure that the families of these people in Ukraine do not know that the Russian side suggested that their family members, who stayed in Russia as prisoners. of war, to be changed”, she added.