Russia and Ukraine swop more prisoners

MOSCOW: Russia and Ukraine carried out the latest in a series of prisoner of war exchanges yesterday, officials in Kyiv and Moscow said.

Russia’s defence ministry said Ukraine had released 50 Russian soldiers who had been captured.

The Ukrainian presidential administration said Ukraine received 48 soldiers and two officers,

Denis Pushilin, the Moscowbacked head of the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region that is under Russian control, said that a prisoner swop with Kyiv was taking place, involving 50 prisoners on each side.

Kyiv and Moscow have so far swopped over 1 000 prisoners of war since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine in February.