Russia and Ukraine swap more POWs in second exchange in two days
MOSCOW : Russia and Ukraine completed another round of prisoner exchanges on Friday, officials in both countries said, part of a recent agreement to swap POWs and the bodies of dead soldiers.
Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials specified how many people were involved in the exchange, the second in two days.
Writing on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said most of his country's POWs had been held by Russia for more than two years, and had been captured across various parts of the sprawling front line.
Russia's defence ministry said the Russian POWs included in the exchange were currently in Belarus, which shares borders with both warring countries.
The two countries have carried out a series of swaps of captured troops and the remains of dead soldiers since renewing peace talks in Istanbul last month after a gap of more than three years.
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