49 Ukrainians released from Russian captivity.

Editor's note: This story is being updated. Ukraine brought back 49 Ukrainian defenders and civilians from Russian captivity on Sept.

13, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. This includes service personnel of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, the National Police and border guards.

A total of 23 women were brought back, including civilian Ukrainians, who were detained and illegally imprisoned by Russia before the full-scale invasion, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported.

Leniye Umerova, a young Crimean Tatar who detained by Russia at the Georgian-Russian border in 2022 when she traveled to occupied Crimea to look after her father, who had been diagnosed with cancer, is among the released.