Ukraine had released 50 Russian soldiers who had been captured.
Moscow:
Russia and Ukraine carried out the latest in a series of prisoner-of-war exchanges on Thursday, with both sides handing over 50 people, officials in Kiev and Moscow said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine had released 50 Russian soldiers who had been captured.
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, said on Telegram that Ukraine has received 48 soldiers and two officers, including marines, infantrymen, border guards and members of territorial defense.
“We managed to recover 19 defenders from Mariupol … as well as 15 prisoners of war from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and seven from Zmiiny Island,” Yermak said.
Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed head of the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region under Russian control, said earlier that a prisoner exchange with Kiev was underway, involving 50 prisoners on each side.
Kiev and Moscow have so far exchanged more than 1,000 prisoners of war since the start of the conflict in Ukraine in February.
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