There are 500 Ukrainian soldiers in Russian captivity that Kiev is not interested in getting back, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said on Wednesday, making their names public.

Russia has a much larger number of Ukrainian prisoners and has offered to release 500 of them in exchange for an equal number of Russian service members in Ukrainian captivity. Kiev has not agreed to the proposal.

“I have a complete list of 500 Ukrainian prisoners of war that Kiev has been refusing to exchange for four months now,” Simonyan wrote on Telegram, posting the documents with their names and dates of birth.

Simonyan also posted a list of 38 names of people that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has requested, describing them as “Azovites and such,” referring to the neo-Nazi Azov organization.

The last prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine took place on February 8, and involved 100 men from each side. Two weeks prior, the Ukrainians shot down a transport plane carrying 65 of their POWs in Belgorod Region, claiming they had targeted a resupply of Russian missiles.

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