May 26, 2025, 4:54 p.m.
(Photo: Odesa City Hall)
A medical center to be financed from the budget of Mariupol is being prepared to open in Odesa at the request of IDPs.
This was reported by the press service of the Odesa municipality following a meeting between the mayors of Odesa and Mariupol, Gennadiy Trukhanov and Vadym Boychenko.
The center will employ 28 medical workers who left Donetsk Oblast and are now eager to help their fellow citizens and all residents of Odesa.
At the first stage, the center will provide primary health care and diagnostic services. In the future, rehabilitation services will also be provided here. According to a study conducted with the support of the UK, 51% of those who left Mariupol still need physical and psychological rehabilitation.
Vadym Boychenko noted that similar experience of opening medical facilities has already been implemented in Lviv, Dnipro, Kyiv and Rivne.
The final stage of the large-scale exchange of prisoners in the thousand-for-thousand format took place on May 25, with 303 prisoners returning to Ukraine.
The liberated defenders defended Ukraine in the Donetsk and Luhansk sectors, in Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions, in Kherson, Sumy and Chernihiv regions. 70 Mariupol defenders are returning home.
On May 24, the second stage of a large prisoner exchange with the Russian Federation in the format of "1000 for 1000" took place, and 307 defenders returned to Ukraine.
On May 23, the first stage of a large prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place. The exchange is conducted in a 1000-for-1000 format and will last three days. Then 307 prisoners returned - 270 military and 120 civilians.
On May 16, 2025, the first talks between the delegations of Ukraine and Russia in three years took place in Istanbul. As a result of the meeting, the parties agreed to exchange prisoners in the "1000 for 1000" format.
Кирило Бойко