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A lot of uncertainty and questions are surrounding the prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine that took place on September 22. On that day, 55 Russian prisoners of war (POWs) came back to Russia, while Ukraine received 215 POWs, including commanders of the notorious neo-Nazi battalion ‘Azov’ and foreign mercenaries who were sentenced to death in the DPR.
Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk was among the prisoners who came to Russia. He was detained by the Ukrainian Security Service SBU in Kiev in February 2022. MSM and the Kiev regime often label Medvedchuk as a ‘pro-Russian figure’ acting in the interests of Russia, while actions of this person on the political landscape of Ukraine clearly demonstrate that this statement is a great embellishment.
On top of this, Returned Russian POWs have clear signs of tortures and inhumane treatment by the ‘Ukrainian democrats’. Some of them were immediately taken to hospitals. In turn, persons released by Russia had no health issues caused by detention and immediately run to participate in press events to make photos for Instagram and talk about ‘Russian tortures’.
As for the Ukrainian prisoners, in total 215 were released. 118 National guardsmen, including 108 servicemen of the Nazi Azov regiment. Among them, there are notorious Azov commanders Denis Prokopenko (Radish), Sergei Volynsky (Volyn) and Svyatoslav Palamar (Kalina).
Among the exchanged Azov fighters, there are Konstantin (Fox) Nikitenko and Nikolai (Frost) Kushch, who surrendered at Azovstal. They were found guilty by the tribunal of shooting civilians and Russian prisoners. Frost “became famous” by sharing videos on the Internet. On of them showed a Russian tankman being shot in the stomach.
The exchange fund also included at least 10 foreign mercenaries, among them Britons Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three were captured in April, and in the summer were sentenced to death in the DPR. The DPR claimed that in accordance with international humanitarian law, mercenaries cannot be considered combatants and claim the status of prisoners of war. Thus, they could not be exchanged. Among the foreigners released from captivity, there were five Britons, two US citizens, one citizen of Morocco, Sweden and Croatia. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXCHANGE CAN BE FOUND HERE
The unequal exchange that took place on September 22 immediately caused a large number of critical reports in Russian Telegram channels and expected dissatisfaction in the Russian society. The lack of immediate, clear and detailed reporting on the prisoner exchange by the Russian side amid the expected aggressive propaganda by MSM, Kiev and its NATO supporters turned the exchange into a large media failure for the Russian side.
Azov commanders released
What is more interesting is the logic behind these developments. Right now, the L/DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhie regions are voting on referenda to join Russia. And in the case of “YES” vote and the subsequent Russia’s decision to accept these territories as new regions, all legal obligations of their authorities would pass to the Russian Federation and all legal procedures would then have to be carried out in accordance with Russian law and under Russian jurisdiction. Therefore, death sentences of captured mercenaries and criminals that remain in the DPR will remain active in Russia and the only option to remove them would be to carry out extraordinary legal procedures (for example, presidential pardons). Thus, with DPR’s accession to the Russian Federation, there would be much less room for “manoeuvre” with the prisoners. Almost the only option to carry out such exchange that we have observed on September 22 was to carry out it before the joining of the DPR to Russia.
So, the maneuver successfully happened and the Russian side achieved political and geopolitical effects that it has wanted to achieve. Regardless, how it was perceived by the society because of the weak media coverage of this exchange.
It should be noted that the Kiev side explained the swap by claims that it won a diplomatic game against Moscow and speculations that there are direct agents of Kiev among Russian elites and political leadership. There are no doubts that at least a part of the Russian oligarchy (affiliated with the globalists) is very unhappy with the Russian military operation in Ukraine and these forces try their best to sabotage the Russian actions there.
Involvement of such notorious oligarch Roman Abramovich (currently hides in the UK) in this story points at these forces.
According to British media, Roman Abramovich took an active part in the exchange. The foreign militants were surprised that after months of captivity they were sent to Saudi Arabia on a private plane. The mercenaries, in an interview given to the British media, reported that they eat tiramisu, canapes on board. In addition, Abramovich gave them iPhones so that they could talk to their families.
“Abramovich was very nice to us, he’s a really nice guy,” the Briton praised him.
Abramovich also took part in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, after which the Russian military left the Kiev, Sumy and Chernihov regions back in April as a sign of goodwill, believing that Kiev was ready for constructive negotiations. Ukrainian blogger and politician Anatoly Shariy previously reported that Abramovich paid the Kiev regime so that it asks its Western allies to exclude the oligarch from the sanction lists. Abramovich is trying his best to please the British elites.
Contacts of the Kremlin with top representatives of Saudi Arabia (Mohammed bin Salman) and Turkey (Recep Tayyip Erdogan) over this exchange indicate an apparent network of formal and informal economic and political agreements reached by Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey under the coverage of the September developments. In this light, the exchange was rather a diplomatic long ball of the Kremlin to its partners.
The current Russian leadership has a long and colorful tradition of achieving its long-term goals by making various ‘strange’ and often unclear (for external observer) actions. Therefore, such move, especially if it allows to make important arrangements with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, goes in the best tradition of the modern Russian diplomacy. Despite this, the involvement of notorious oligarch and unequal exchange of prisoners that were not really explained by the government to the Russian society throw a shadow on the entire situation. Oligarchs and Western-affiliated segment of the Russian elites who clearly act against interests of the Russian nation still keep a large part of their influence, even if it is reduced by Russian actions since February 2022. Therefore, the Russian leadership needs not only carry out a successful military campaign in Ukraine to achieve declared goals there, but also to take care about representatives of elites and oligarchs who act against interests of the Russian state.
It’s a bad deal, it makes no sense, but it’s a done deal. No need to argue about this again and again and allow enemy provocateurs to exploit it any more. After the war someone will have to explain how and why this happened but right now there are far more pressing issues.
Kadyrov said it all (Google translate):
“Extremely dissatisfied with yesterday’s exchange. The whole situation is incomprehensible to me. Whenever combat or tactical decisions were made, we, active participants in the special operation, were not consulted.
I understand that at the top in the Ministry of Defense and the FSB it is much more visible, but I believe that criminals recognized as terrorists cannot be exchanged for servicemen. I would understand if there was an equivalent exchange – a soldier for a soldier, an agent for an agent. We have a lot of prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whom you change at least a hundred to one, they will still remain.
We completed the exchange on Ukrainian terms. It is not right. Our fighters crushed the fascists in Mariupol, drove them into Azovstal, smoked them out of the basements, died, got wounded and shell-shocked. The transfer of even one of these Azov terrorists should have been unacceptable. And therefore, it is not surprising that the fighters who liberated Mariupol and are now at the forefront draw their conclusion – do not take the Nazis prisoner.
By the way, those of the Nazis who insulted the honor of the Chechen people during their time in captivity fully answered for their every vile word, bitterly regretted and tearfully repented of their deed.
I repeat, the above is my personal opinion, and it does not affect our main unshakable principle in any way: any order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is executable!”
https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/2862
You motherfucker give tiramisu and canapes to these terrorist Neonazis who killed civilians (including children) in Donbass for 8 years? Your fortune should be confiscated by the RF.
Kadyrov’s comment about this exchange, he explained it all (Google translate)
“Extremely dissatisfied with yesterday’s exchange. Even the whole situation is incomprehensible to me. Whenever combat or tactical decisions were made, we, active participants in the special operation, were not consulted.
I understand that at the top in the Ministry of Defense and the FSB it is much more visible, but I believe that criminals recognized as terrorists cannot be exchanged for servicemen. I would understand if there was an equivalent exchange – a soldier for a soldier, an agent for an agent. We have a lot of prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whom you change at least a hundred to one, they will still remain.
We completed the exchange on Ukrainian terms. It is not right. Our fighters crushed the fascists in Mariupol, drove them into Azovstal, smoked them out of the basements, died, got wounded and shell-shocked. The transfer of even one of these Azov terrorists should have been unacceptable. And therefore, it is not surprising that the fighters who liberated Mariupol and are now at the forefront draw their conclusion – do not take the Nazis prisoner.
By the way, those of the Nazis who insulted the honor of the Chechen people during their time in captivity fully answered for their every vile word, bitterly regretted and tearfully repented of their deed.
I repeat, the above is my personal opinion, and it does not affect our main unshakable principle in any way: any order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is executable!”
https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/2862
The Jerusalem Post: Zelensky the most influential Jew of the Year 2022.
“Our brightest star!”
https://www.jpost.com/50-most-influential-jews-2022
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That tells it all to Russia no more “Mr nice guy “verified elsewhere–on a brighter note – Donbass & Lugansk over 50 % voters as of Sunday-
LPR =over 76 % already cast – Donbass =77 % — Kherson=49 %
How many votes?
Like all elections the votes have to be counted -what I posted was apart from Kherson those voting were over the 50 % margin . The UK has won elections on 33 % of voters voting and Germany around the same so no hypocrisy please .
It’s not a good situation for the russians. Ukroshits now are doing all theirs best to cut the supply lines north of Lyman, because if this happens, they must evacuate Lyman and surrounding area. Very dangerous situation for them especially because the hitlerists will do every possible effort to achieve more military victories in Kharkov area in this next 3 months till the enormous reinforcements will enter the frontline and that will be GAME OVER for them. Mark my word: the most difficult time from the entire war is that NEXT 3 months !!!!!!!! Russians MUST keep the front will ALL costs ! It’s the new Stalingrad ! After 80 years the HISTORY is repeating itself ! Better to understand to get all those antifascist foreign volunteers NOW ! Even the ME shia ones !!!!!!!! They are excellent fighters and can cope easily with any hohol banderist trash ! And the next 7 days till the official annexation of liberated territories will be the harsh of the harshest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After that, Russia can legally use the tactical high power weapons (not only nukes, Putin clearly spoke about that) to dismantle any section of front from it’s wehrmacht Kiev nazi horseshit. Be strong Russia !
Long live Russia !
Jerusalem Post got it wrong; Hitler was the most influential jew since one of his parents was jewish which makes him a jew; there is a debate about Hitler being a jew but in Austria, common knowledge has that he was a jew.
You have a point Israel changed its rules — any person with a Jewish relative is entitled to enter Israel and live there.
Yes Hitler had a Jewish relative – SS Reich Fuehrer Heinrich Himmler went to great lengths to cover this up even visiting Hitlers records office and removing paperwork just like the CIA/FBI/MI5
The Masonic hand of the jew is all over this disgusting exchange. Abramovitch, MBS, crypto jew, Erdogan, crypto jew, Elensky, jew, and Putin. All are freemasons. No one is representing the Orthodox Christians or the Righteous Muslims. This undermines the very premise of SMO being to de-nazify. Putin loses the moral high ground he had gained. Dirty deals done dirt cheap. I hope there is something that Lavrov and Putin know that we don’t because right now this is a moral cesspool unworthy of Russia and its’ brave fighters. Actions always speak louder than words.
Persian Orchestra playing “Mosquito requiem of death in C minor” right now in Odessa and region.
Remove the infiltrated NATO Russians..
Indeed. Where is “Pootie-Poot”?… Probably ki$$ing the gold bars https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russia-gold-export-switzerland-ukraine-invasion-sanctions-metals-palladium-imports-2022-6 and “other” he only is allowed to buy from the Western CBs for his Country!!!… Who cares if he gives back the trained terrori$t$ to return another day to kill more of his own and at 8 times the number of Russian POWs captured!??? … They work for the Russian Central Bank and it’s oil corporations not owned by Russians!!!
When you know you are owned by Central Banks and their is no sovereignty on this planet no matter where you are “sitting”!
Both sides tortured prisoners, lets be honest. But depending on where u live, u will probably only see one side torturing prisoners of the other side.
Apperently my comment was to honest. I ment: Russian side are angels, they would never torture the foreign and Azov fighters.
Sure, according to that British cunt Russians punched him and forced him to sing Russian anthem. OMG! How incredibly eeeevil. While Ukro psychopaths cooking human heads….
https://t.me/NovichokRossiya/12841
https://t.me/NovichokRossiya/12842
It’s real. And not the first time they brag with their cannibalism. I doubt even ISIS or Mongols or anyone is this sick. So called “ukrainians” are not a nation, they are a mental disease: a mixture of hate, inferiority complexes and sickening indoctrination. Literally Orcs, evil beasts created and bred to fight and hate. Their “hero” Bandera and his terrorists committed monstrous atrocities in WW2, even Nazis were appalled and disgust.
So no, perhaps Russians are not angels in this war (IMO in many aspects are too tolerant and lenient since day1). But Ukros are purely demonic. Just as their USNATO masters.
War propaganda?
Wtf why my comment got deleted when I just pointed out obvious.
I was not only talking about British guy touch, I think he got away very well. I mainly ment the Azov fighter who got his arm broken and looked very skinny. Sure, the exchange was unequal and Ukrainian side definitely tortured Russian soldiers. But to think the Russians didnt torture the other side, would be very naïve… maybe not the extent as the Ukrainians but still happened.
Correct. Theirs attitude towards these congenital DNA criminals was and still is very damaging one. With mentally and psychologically deranged murderers you cannot use soft methods. They are just simple animals and won’t learn anything with good words; only with the stick.
Comment section is a joke, my comments are being deleted while I havent said anything hateful or whatever. Apperently you have to be die hard pro-Putin to reply.
That’s over a 10 to 1 ratio. This means that Russia has been inflicting many more casualties on Ukraine than the other way around. If Russia was at the losing end of this war then Ukraine would have Russian POW’s to spare to get back their soldiers.
Maybe surrendered russian soldiers don’t want to go back to Russia yet? Well that and Victor Mededevchuck is a personal friend of Putin, and Putin doesn’t have many friends left🙁
Finns captured 64,000 Red Army soldiers in 1941-44 and Red Army captured 3,500 Finns. Does it mean that Finns inflicted 18 times more casualties to Red Army than Red Army to Finns?
My god, that overhyped winter war, mostly bs western propaganda.
Where those slimy perfidious British get involved, nothing good ever comes out of it. They are a cancer on the planet. They wave around Ukrainian flags but regard their Ukrainain cannon fodder lives same as cattle. Its all a big fake PR exercise. Using people and countries like expendable pawns in a failed attempt to rule the world. By bye Britain, lousy country of pirates
Keeping people prisoner is expensive, they need to be guarded, housed, fed and given medical assistance. If they sign an affadavit saying they won’t take any further part in the conflict then the threat they pose is neutralised without more costs being incurred. Also it will show others they can surrender safely. And it provides yet another example to the West that Russians are being decent, generous and honourable. For future exchanges it might be worth thinking about “hire car” advice, thoroughly taking photos etc. (and medical exams in this case?) to show the condition when you got it and what it was like when you handed it back! What motivates those released from the DPR who complain of ill treatment? Well who knows what happened, I wasn’t there, yet it sounds unlikely and doesn’t tally with earlier interviews. I wonder if it rather hints of “intelligence” agents continuing to do their work and exploit the situation as ordered.
I’m French, i mean really french. That’s my analysis : Even if Russians are decent, nobody (or almost nobody) in the french population will know it. The propaganda is everywhere since we are born. For example i don’t remember a single movie were the good guy is a Russian. But it’s worst than that : the new generations in the west are totally acculturated. Raised in the hate of their own history, the young whites are slowly replaced by an entirely mixed race population who has nothing in common with our former values. It means that we are not nations anymore. We are a region of the global world dominated by the USA and the Jewish banking system. In the mind of the globalists, after the blood bath of white blood, Ukraine will be filled with third world people. Their goal is to obtain a globalized population, it’s the biological keystone of their domination. Bankers in NY are laughing : with the help of their fellow Jew Zelensky, they plunged Ukrainian white nationalists in a war with white christian Russia. It’s a win win situation for them.
Completely true statement. And that’s happening all over Europe since ww2. They need idiot peoples/masses everywhere because sheep is easy to conduct. Smart and cultivated peoples are a great enemy of those khazar fake jews globalist agenda. And that was from khazar Kalergy’s time. One of the first action of them was the carefully planed turks ‘immigration’ (call it invasion) into Germany
thats all right, but still no excuse for why exchanging 1:5 instead 1:1. and how to treat these ukro pows if they return to battlefield and may be captured again?
Lock them up for longer. They would have to be allowed back in to the military by the leaders though, responsibility for the deal breaking would fall on them too, perhaps with a suitable response literally falling on their “decision making centres”. As for the ratio, there are lots more Ukro prisoners, Medvedchuk is a high level “prize” to win – and in practical terms, caged mercs and Nazi’s must make lousy pets, what does anyone want them for?
The problem I have with this ridiculous prisoner exchange is the fact that of those 215 potential Nazis, who’s gonna go straight back into service?
With that kind of reasoning it would not surprise me if within two months Russia will retreat from Ukraine for long term diplomatic gains, China and India will reward them. Besides the special operation costs a lot of money and men which can better be used to enhance the living standards of ordinary Russian people. Donetsk and Luhanks are impoverished, the factories and mines destroyed and no longer of any economic value. The Azov people promised not to fight anymore and I bet that a lot of Ukrainians will promise the same after a Russian retreat.
Less young men around, higher living standards for those left, starting with free pussy. Masculinity will worth something after it becomes scarce. 😀 West should cull most of it’s young male population too, especially since it is so soft and self centered. Z to the End! 🇷🇺
So what’s left on Putin’s denatzification program? It was of course just another ridiculous rhetoric nonsense for foolish “patriotic Russians”. We clearle see how Russia is still led by oligarchs, Putin being one of them. What a wake up call for naive pro Russia folks.
Nice try sunshine. Here you go, some shekels for you
“The current Russian leadership has a long and colorful tradition of achieving its long-term goals by making various ‘strange’ and often unclear (for external observer) actions.”
The aZov filth can and will all be tracked and stacked later on down the road. Marshal Time is on Russia’s side and karma must be paid, always.
Well, regardless of Kiev interests, this serves Russian interests as well. Russia needs to show the criminal nature of Kiev’s illegal junta, it’s Zionist leadership and genocidal treatment of Russians to improve the resolve of Russia troops, never surrender. The mercs will be tested, tell the truth, or double down on duplicitous nazi convictions. How they act now, will determine the future of mercs captured in the war moving forward, will they seal the fate of others by doubling down on their stupidity? This mercs and nazis might be KOS, and no more prisoners… Azov ranks, well, image that they have all been tagged with a radiological substance detectable from satillite, without knowing it, in their cigarettes, so they have both a death sentence and a tracking tag, if they are to meet Zelensky for that Zionist whore’s PR show… Boom, perfect target assist, it would be an excellent psychological blow to the puppet’s masters in Israel.
Good point. Some plutonium in theirs meals will make them to meet Bandera soon.
tiramisu, canapes to these terrorists and children killers? Are you fucking serious?
Why fight when its clear putin sees his own slavs as slaves send to die capture enemy then release so they can go on holidays and have book deals. Being a Russian rely is pathetic must of done serious wrong to be born a Russians. Used abused thrown in the trash pretty much sums up their life. Zero enjoyment whilst on earth
However you spin it, this was a bad move. This will just embolden Ukronazis to keep fighting. Look, even those who are proven to have murdered civilians and prisoners of war can walk free! Not only can they walk free but 100 others will also be set free for a tiny handful of Russians + Medvechuk who wasn’t even a Russian citizen! Meanwhile Russian soldiers fought hard and suffered a lot of casualties to capture those terrorists and Putinsky just lets them go free. Putinsky (Yeltsin 2.0) and Zelensky are just two heads of the same serpent, both equally don’t give a fuck about “their own” people.
would anyone wish to be in the shoes of these returned Nazis once they get back to their masters? I dont think they will enjoy being sent back to the front!!!
A notice to SouthFront. Why have a comment section to these reads when you always pull the unpleasant ones that speak the truth to it’s leader in addition to the read itself?…
Lets face facts…. How do you spell “BETRAYAL”… And why would any soldier… sailor… marine… and airman… want to serve a leadership that makes deals like this one?…
…Having said this earlier.. . Not enough information to know fact from fiction and all the “misdirection” taking place in between. I just hope that none if it’s true and that the Russian Federation swaps are propaganda from both sides.
This https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sullivan-warns-russia-catastrophic-consequences-1st-public-response-putins-nuclear is actually good news as it means the U.$. is losing much worse than we thought!
I only hope when all is said and done that that Team America in the Executive and Capitol are all found dead with self inflicted gunshot wounds to the head resting on a bed of worthle$$ $USD!… How’s that final image for the rest of the oppressed masses?!!!
after the battle field fiasko in the northeast, now this is a new propaganda fiasko for russia. exchanging 55 for 215? why and why not 1:1? and why releasing asov nazis, foreign mercs and a few with well documented crimes agains russian and donbas forces? this catastrophic military and media agitation by russia melt down the russian supporters in and outside russia and if this goes on, in few weeks moscow will face mass demonstrations up to civil war risk.
Screeching around the world about the exchange of Russian prisoners, to be honest, already got it. The life of one Russian soldier is worth 200 of this genetic garbage! We do not care who is dissatisfied with what, we save our soldiers at any cost. Putin is not dumber than you! We have more than 10,000 Ukrainians, whom we feed, drink and treat for free. And the Russian soldier is so valuable that the exchange is 1 to 4! The suffering of a Russian soldier in captivity is not worth this rubbish! We will kill them all the same on the battlefield! Tons! Calm down already!
You’re right, but also read it backward: 1 nazi filth like them will kill 200 ethnic russians when returning banderapizdan reich. And the ONLy valid way of dealing with such pest is executing on spot, off course without any eyewitness and let them pass as war fight casualties. Nobody will know that if properly done. No free feed and drink and NOTHING for such animals. I told that many times from beginning. Letting them free will cost very high Russia tomorrow. They aren’t normal soldiers but worst than ISIS.
Le’s see, 10 foreign mercenaries transferred to Saudi Arabia, who cares about them and were freed. Just don’t go back to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian regular and the Nationalist troops all went to Turkey and will be sitting out the war at a hotel/camp? My guess is Erdogan made the deal to keep straddling the fence between Russia and the West. Otherwise there will be no gas, wheat, fertilizer or tourists for Turkey if the Nationalist troops are released. Once the war is over they will be indited for murder, torture, and other crimes against humanity and extradited back to Russia. While the regular troops will be sent to Ukraine or whats left of it.