Russia and Ukraine Swap Around 50 Prisoners of War - Officials More MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine carried out the latest in series of prisoner of war exchanges on Saturday, with both sides returning around 50 people, officials in Moscow and Kyiv said. Ukraine's military intelligence...
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 200 prisoners of war, officials have announced. In a deal mediated by theUnited Arab Emirates, each side released 103 prisoners - includingRussianscaptured sinceUkraine's incursion in the Kursk region began in August. Both sides released images of soldier...
It follows the release Friday of 49 Ukrainians andan August swapof more than 100 prisoners. Zelensky said many of the prisoners have been held by Russia since 2022, as early as the first few months after Russia invaded Ukraine. Some of the prisoners were part of the Armed Forces of Ukrain...
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A Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap, without about 200 POWs from each side coming home, shows the countries are still talking after Moscow accused Kyiv of downing a plane.
The prisoner swap took place in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, Tymoshenko said, without giving the number of captives released by Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia held their latest round of face-to-face peace talks in Turkey's Istanbul on Tuesday. ...
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes the exchange of 230 Ukrainian and 248 Russian prisoners of war, the largest swap in the almost two-year-old conflict, a UN spokeswoman said on Thursday. ...
Ukraine said Friday it had received the bodies of 250 killed soldiers in one of the largest exchanges of remains sinceRussia invadedin February 2022. The two sides regularlyexchange soldiers' bodiesas well as captured prisoners of war in rare diplomatic dealmaking between Moscow and Kyiv. ...
As part of the swap, the bodies of 212 Ukrainian soldiers were also handed over by Russia. Ukraine and Russia announced their first exchange of prisoners of war in nearly four months on Friday, with 150 people freed after negotiations mediated by the United Arab Emirates. ...
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged over 100 prisoners of war as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.