Among the 140 Ukrainian defenders released from captivity by the Russian Federation on December 31, a representative of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, paramedic from "Azovstal" Azov native Asan Isenadzhiev, as well as serviceman of the "Azov" regiment Arseniy Fedosyuk "Protses".

Tamila Tasheva, the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, announced the dismissal of Asan Isenadzhiev on her Facebook page.

"The brave Ukrainian soldier, representative of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, paramedic from "Azovstal" Asan Isenadzhiev returned home from enemy captivity! From the first day of the full-scale invasion, he saved the lives of our citizens - military and civilians," she wrote.

It is worth noting that in April, a

 brought Ukrainians to tears.

The photo shared by the medic on his Instagram shows his bloodied hands in gloves, which he folded into the shape of a heart.

"Tell my mother the words - I saw so much pain, but I will never break," Asan Isenajiev captioned the photo.

Photo: instagram.com/dr.livese

Arseniy Fedosyuk was also released from captivity.

This was reported by a relative of his wife, as well as Serhiy Kvit, head of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where the Mariupol defender studied.

The last exchange of prisoners in 2022

We will remind, on December 31, Ukraine returned 

from Russian captivity .

These are the defenders of Mariupol, Zmiiny Island, TRo volunteers from Slavutych and fighters from the Bakhmut direction.

On September 21, as part of the exchange of prisoners, the commander of the "Azov" regiment, Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, his deputy, Svyatoslav "Kalyna" Palamar, and the commander of the 36th separate marine brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy "Volyn" Volynskyi were released.

They are currently in Turkey under the terms of the exchange.

In September, the

 - 19-year-old paramedic Nazarii Hryntsevich, nicknamed Hrinka, was also released from Russian captivity.

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