Politics Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners
Russia and Ukraine have completed another major prisoner exchange. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 115 Russian soldiers who were captured in the Kursk region have been returned home following negotiations. In return, the same number of Ukrainians were handed over. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the exchange on social networks.
24.08.2024, 14:56
SDA
Ukraine does not forget anyone and is trying everything to get its own soldiers back from captivity, Selensky wrote. He thanked his own troops who had taken the Russians prisoner. This had made the exchange possible in the first place. Zelenskyi had stated more than once that one of the aims of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region was to capture Russian soldiers in order to exchange them for Ukrainians held as prisoners of war.
After more than two years of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, most diplomatic channels between the two parties to the conflict are closed. The exchange of prisoners of war is one of the few areas in which Moscow and Kiev are still cooperating.
