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Ukraine Invasion Day 237: prisoner exchanges and cheap drones [1]
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Date: 2022-10-17
"A former Russian state television journalist who protested against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine during a live broadcast has fled the country after being put on a wanted list. “[Marina] Ovsyannikova and her daughter left Russia a few hours after departing from the address where she was under house arrest. They are in Europe now,” Ovsyannikova’s lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said. “They are fine. They are waiting until they can talk about publicly, but for now it is not safe,” he added. The former editor at Channel One made global headlines in March when she interrupted a broadcast of its flagship Vremya (Time) evening news, holding a poster reading “No war”.
All that tactical nuke talk by the Russians is largely disinformation about scheduled training. They know what would happen, much like NATO does. The real combat now is about the major pre-winter counteroffensive to reclaim southern territory to the pre-2014 line. “Ukraine must actually recapture all its land to the internationally recognized border:. Then there’s the MSM trying to tie Russia and Iran together until anti-drone tech improves. OTOH crowd-sourced drone geolocating might even work.
A very small bit of good news is the exchange of POWs amidst the disinformation that frames the Russian use of Iranian-made drones:
x In case you're grasping for a shred of good news today:
https://t.co/IAQVuofJkx — Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) October 17, 2022 Ukraine says another "large-scale" prisoner swap has taken place with Russia, describing it as the first all-female exchange since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Andriy Yermak, head of the president's office, said on Telegram that the exchange took place on October 17 and freed 108 women. "Mothers and daughters were in captivity, and their relatives were waiting for them," Yermak said. Among the freed prisoners were 37 who held out in the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol through weeks of fighting in the city until Russian forces seized it in May. Most of the women were members of the Ukrainian armed forces. Yermak posted a photo of the women walking down a road, many of them in their uniforms and smiling. Some of the women had been captured before Russia launched its invasion on February 24 and held for holding an "extremely pro-Ukrainian position," Yermak said. [...] The last prisoner exchange between Kyiv and Moscow took place on October 13. That involved 20 Ukrainian soldiers and was the second of the week after 32 soldiers were freed and the body of an Israeli who volunteered to fight for Ukraine was released two days earlier. www.rferl.org/... x Russia released 108 women from captivity after today’s exchange. Among them is Lyudmila Parkhomenko. She was imprisoned in occupied Donetsk for protecting orphaned children. She spent three years and 13 days in detention. She is finally free and just called our colleague. pic.twitter.com/5OLr9RCaqt — Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina) October 17, 2022
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