Russia and Ukraine each swapped 95 prisoners of war yesterday in an agreement completed with the UAE acting as mediator, the Russian Defence Ministry said. The returning Russian service members were undergoing medical checks in Belarus.
There was no immediate word of the exchange from Ukrainian authorities. Ukrainian news reports said the returnees included Ukrainian journalist and rights advocate Maksym Butkevych, convicted by a Russian court of shooting at Russian forces. The reports said they also included one of Ukraine’s Azov brigade fighters who defended Mariupol for nearly three months in 2022.
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