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Zelensky urges Guterres to use all UN mechanisms to return Ukrainian prisoners
KYIV. Aug 18 (Interfax-Ukraine) – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on UN Secretary-General António Guterres to use all UN mechanisms to return Ukrainian prisoners of war to their homeland.
"Much attention [during the meeting] was paid to a very painful issue, the issue of protecting and releasing Ukrainian prisoners who are being held by Russia. I called on the UN Secretary General to use all possible measures and use all mechanisms of the organization to return all our people home," Zelensky said at a briefing following a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and UN Secretary General António Guterres.
According to the president, there was agreement on the speedy dispatch of a mission to establish the facts of the death of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Olenivka.
