According to international law, such prisoners can refuse Russian exchange and remain in Ukraine.

Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, told Channel 24 about this.

He clarified that anyone mobilized in the temporarily occupied territories can surrender to the Armed Forces.

"Especially if it can be made part of it, it would be great. They can, according to the convention, refuse the exchange and stay until the end of the war in Ukraine," said the adviser to the head of the presidential office.

According to Podoliak, the Russians

can mobilize many of those who supported the occupation of Crimea on the peninsula.

"Who shouted about 'stones from the sky' in 2014, applauded the annexation of Crimea and the actions of Russia in Donetsk and Luhansk...

It is desirable that they go and pay with their lives

for destroying civilization in these regions. This will be the right karma, which is "catching up" with traitors", - the advisor of the head of the OP is convinced.

We will remind, according to the Russian media, Russia plans to close its borders on September 28, and on September 30 - to annex the occupied regions of Ukraine.

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