Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will continue to be updated. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 207 Ukrainian prisoners returned home from Russian captivity on Jan. 31 and that “almost half of them are Mariupol defenders.” It was one of the largest groups of Ukrainian prisoners to be brought back to Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war. The group consisted of 180 privates and sergeants, as well as 27 officers from the Armed Forces, National Guard, Border Guard, and National Police, Zelensky said in a later update. Earlier in January, 230 Ukrainian prisoners of wa…
