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Add as preferred source on GoogleRussia and Ukraine completed another POW exchange as part of ongoing peace talks. Details on the number of exchanged POWs remain undisclosed.
MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -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 Zelenskiy 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.
(Reporting by Reuters and Yulia Dysa in Gdansk; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva and Dan Peleschuk; Editing by Mark Trevelyan and Gareth Jones)
Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials specified how many people were involved in the exchange.
Russia's defence ministry stated that the Russian POWs included in the exchange were currently in Belarus.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned that most of his country's POWs had been held by Russia for more than two years.
The two countries have carried out a series of swaps since renewing peace talks in Istanbul last month after a gap of more than three years.
The exchanges are part of ongoing efforts to negotiate peace and address the humanitarian aspects of the conflict.
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