Russia, Ukraine conduct another round of POWs exchange

The exchanges are portion of agreements reached by the warring sides during talks successful Istanbul earlier this month.

Ukraine and Russia person swapped prisoners of warfare (POWs), the warring sides said, aft Moscow besides handed implicit the bodies of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers to Kyiv.

“We proceed to instrumentality our radical retired of Russian captivity. This is the 4th speech successful a week,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote connected societal media connected Saturday.

The Russian Ministry of Defence posted connected Telegram that different radical of Russian servicemen was returned “from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime” successful accordance with the agreements reached by the 2 sides successful Istanbul earlier this month.

Photos published by Zelenskyy connected Telegram showed men of assorted ages, mostly with shaved heads, wearing camouflage and draped successful Ukrainian flags.

Some were injured, others disembarked from buses and hugged those welcoming them, oregon were seen calling idiosyncratic by phone, sometimes covering their faces oregon smiling.

Moscow’s Defence Ministry released its ain video showing men successful uniforms holding Russian flags, clapping and chanting “Russia, Russia”, “Glory to Russia” and “Hooray”, immoderate raising their fists successful the air.

The Russian soldiers are successful Belarus, wherever they are receiving aesculapian attraction earlier being transferred backmost to Russia, the Defence Ministry said. The ministry did not accidental however galore POWs were progressive successful the latest swap.

However, Russian authorities media reported, citing sources, that Moscow had not received immoderate of its warfare dormant backmost from Kyiv, echoing a connection Russia made connected Friday erstwhile it said it had returned the bodies of 1,200 slain Ukrainian soldiers and received nary of its own.

Ukraine earlier connected Saturday confirmed it had received the bodies of its soldiers killed successful action.

The latest POW speech betwixt Russia and Ukraine came aft Moscow alleged that Kyiv had indefinitely postponed the swap of wounded and earnestly sick POWs and those nether the property of 25, arsenic good arsenic the instrumentality of the bodies of thousands of soldiers connected each side.

The swap came arsenic Russia intensified its violative on the beforehand line, particularly successful the northeastern Sumy region, wherever it seeks to found a “buffer zone”. Zelenskyy claimed Russia’s beforehand connected Sumy was stopped, adding that Kyiv’s forces person managed to retake 1 village.

Meanwhile, the 2 sides are nary person to immoderate impermanent ceasefire statement arsenic a factual measurement towards ending the warfare contempt immoderate archetypal momentum from the United States President Donald Trump who present appears to beryllium losing patience successful his run for a truce, adjacent suggesting the 2 beryllium near to combat longer, similar “children successful a park“, earlier they are pulled apart.