Key developments on May 24-25: Ukraine brings home 303 POWs in final phase of biggest prisoner swap with Russia Russian missile, drone attack kills 12, injures 79 US silence ‘encourages Putin’, Zelensky says after massive Russian attack Russia losing battlefield edge in war against Ukraine, WP reports Russia will reveal peace terms to Ukraine after […]
Ukraine is working on a previously agreed-upon 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner exchange with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 21. “We have to release all our people, unconditionally. We are trying to do the maximum we can. We are trying very hard,” Zelensky said in an evening address on May 21. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) on […]
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has launched preparatory steps for a large-scale prisoner exchange with Russia involving 1,000 detainees from each side, the agency announced on May 17. The Joint Coordination Center for the Search and Release of Prisoners, operating under the SBU, is compiling a list of Russian military personnel currently held in Ukrainian custody […]
A major prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia involving around 1,000 POWs from each side is expected to take place next week, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said on air on May 17, following an agreement reached in Istanbul. “I hope it will happen next week,” Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, said. “I don’t […]