(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Prisoner exchange brings 75 Ukrainians home [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-05-31 There was finally a new prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia, with 70 men and 5 women returning to Ukraine, including some who were taken prisoner during the siege of Mariupol, some who were captured defending Chernobyl and some from Snake Island. An equal number of Russians were exchanged. But I have yet to see any video from this exchange showing joyful reunions of Russians with their families and comrades. Hmmmm. I wonder why that is. x 70 men and 5 women were freed from Russian captivity. Among them are 6 officers, 65 soldiers and sergeants and four civilians. Returned home: 🇺🇦 37 of the Armed Forces; 🇺🇦 21 National Guardsmen; 🇺🇦 7 border guards; 🇺🇦 6 Territorial Defense; 🇺🇦 4 civilian women. ❗Among those… pic.twitter.com/02rJX6aT1q — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) May 31, 2024 x "Mommy, I'm home! I'm home, mom!" Mariana Checheliuk got to call her mom for the first time in two years. 📹: Lubinets Dymtro/Telegram https://t.co/127lA5tEfq pic.twitter.com/PANgx28rMq — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 31, 2024 Turn up the audio. x Home at last. Kostyantyn Myrhorodskyi, who was in captivity for more than 2 years, is singing «Ukraine», one of the most popular songs by Taras Petrynenko. 📹: Suspilne pic.twitter.com/XdwslXmT8B — Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 31, 2024 “And there’s no more Batya!” Too bad. Should have stayed home. x pic.twitter.com/SUgEMaTetv — KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 (@KilledInUkraine) May 22, 2024 Another oil terminal goes up in flames. This one is on the Russian side of the Kerch Strait. x 😍😍😍 🔥| The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the strike by «Neptune» missiles on the oil terminal of the port «Kavkaz» (the second largest Russian port in the Black Sea) and a ferry crossing in the Krasnodar region. pic.twitter.com/pj7Pbbfayo — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) May 31, 2024 This is a rather astonishing video. An armored vehicle is on fire and just keeps on driving. I kept waiting for it to blow up or ride off the road, but it just kept going. x A MT-LB attempting to break the land-speed record. pic.twitter.com/B7SB3KHUmU — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) May 31, 2024 A cornucopia of drone hits. x Roads in the Kreminna sector under the control of FPV drones of the 12th Azov Brigade. The logistics routes of the invaders are a key target of the strike UAVs company fighters. FPV drones effectively destroy moving targets and save ammunition for other brigade firepower. Enemy… pic.twitter.com/rECOffFrBH — Azov Brigade (@azov_media) May 30, 2024 The drone operator toys with the Russian soldier until finally taking him out. WARNING: Video shows soldier being blown up. x 🔞 The orc had one last hope — to throw the machine gun and shoot down the drone. He was unlucky today. Next time....🙃 pic.twitter.com/82D9vBWyOi — ✙ Albina Fella ✙ 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺 (@albafella1) May 31, 2024 The camo netting didn’t help much. x Sneaky Ukrainian FPV drone attacks Russian2S19 Msta-S 152.4 mm self-propelled howitzer from behind https://t.co/YdYP6ZnvcJ pic.twitter.com/P0DtvGndYX — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) May 31, 2024 The beatings will continue until the drone blows everybody up. x During reconnaissance and strike mission 🇺🇦Ukrainian drone of the 15th Operational Brigade filmed an interesting episode… 🇷🇺Russian commander kicks his own soldier. To help them resolve the conflict, drone-dropped munition on them. 📍Zaporizhzhia region pic.twitter.com/SMrCGBq9RW — Cloooud |🇺🇦 (@GloOouD) May 30, 2024 Russia launched another attack on civilians in Kharkiv, hitting an apartment building and killing at least 5. x The number of dead has increased to five people — a man's body was found under the rubble, Oleg Synegubov, head of the OVA, said. The search operation is ongoing#kharkiv pic.twitter.com/Zdvim5XH15 — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) May 31, 2024 x "He doesn't pick up the phone..." The most difficult hours of the lives of these Kharkiv residents, who are looking for their son at the site of a rocket attack. The phone is silent. Video: Думка pic.twitter.com/t0zZWKf6b8 — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) May 31, 2024 This situation needs to be reversed ASAP. x 💥Russia is beating western capitals to third-country ammunition supplies that have been earmarked for Ukraine, warns Prague, as Moscow gets cash to arms companies faster than Nato governments https://t.co/zD9usW7zrb @ft w @RaphaelMinder — Henry Foy (@HenryJFoy) May 30, 2024 The Amur region of Russia is in the Far East, north of Manchuria. x 💥 29 coal wagons derailed in the Amur region of the #RussianFederation The forest caught fire as a result of the incident. The causes of the accident are under investigation. pic.twitter.com/D7lfxr1r4S — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 31, 2024 Rest in peace. x ⚡️Anastasiia Volkova, a military journalist with the Ukrainian state-run media outlet Freedom, died in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, on May 30, Freedom reported.https://t.co/WDH0y8dnal — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 30, 2024 Tsybukh was only a few days away from her 26th birthday. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/31/2243901/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Prisoner-exchange-brings-75-Ukrainians-home?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/