Ukraine and Russia agreed to a large-scale prisoner swap during their talks, the head of Ukraine’s delegation said in an interview with Ukraine’s public broadcaster. “We discussed an exchange of 1,000 for 1,000. We are also working on other modalities for this exchange,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov told Suspilne. “[The exchange will take place] in the near future; we already know the date, but we will not disclose it yet,” he added. Thousands of prisoners have been released in a series of exchanges between Kyiv and Moscow since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war from each side, Defence Minister Rustem Umerov told Ukrainian TV on Friday as talks in Istanbul ended. If the exchange goes ahead, it would be the biggest prisoner swap in more than three years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to swap 1000 prisoners of war each, Kyiv’s defence minister has said. “We will know the date soon, but we won’t talk about it yet,” Rustem Umerov said. It would represent the largest prisoner swap of the war so far. Some 500 POWs were exchanged by the two sides in April.
