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Ukraine and Russia exchange wounded, ill prisoners of war
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Posted on June 12, 2025
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Posted on June 12, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Ukraine and Russia exchanged wounded POWs, focusing on young and severely ill soldiers, as part of ongoing agreements.
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia exchanged another group of ill and severely wounded servicemen on Thursday, officials from both countries said.
All of the Ukrainian troops need treatment, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a message on the Telegram messaging app that did not go into details on the numbers involved.
Kyiv and Moscow agreed to a large exchange of POWs and the remains of thousands of dead soldiers during talks in Istanbul earlier this month.
Since then, Russia and Ukraine have swapped dozens of prisoners of war, focusing on under-25s and the severely wounded and sick. There are hopes they could build into some of the biggest exchanges in the war that was triggered by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's defence ministry said a group of Russian troops had returned from Ukraine and crossed into neighbouring Belarus, in accordance with the agreements made on June 2.
"They are being provided with the necessary psychological and medical assistance," the ministry said on Telegram.
On Wednesday, Ukraine said it had brought home the bodies of 1,212 bodies of troops killed in the war with Russia. Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky said Ukraine had returned the bodies of 27 Russian soldiers.
(Reporting by Olena Harmash, Aleksandar Vasovic and Alexander Marrow; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Andrew Heavens)
Ukraine and Russia exchanged another group of ill and severely wounded servicemen on Thursday, as confirmed by officials from both countries.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that all of the Ukrainian troops involved in the exchange need treatment, although he did not provide specific numbers.
During talks in Istanbul earlier this month, Ukraine and Russia agreed to a large exchange of POWs and the remains of thousands of dead soldiers.
On Wednesday, Ukraine reported that it had brought home the bodies of 1,212 troops killed in the war with Russia.
Russia's defense ministry stated that the returning troops are being provided with necessary psychological and medical assistance.
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