Ukraine and Russia swap hundreds of prisoners, strike on Kyiv apartment block kills 24

Russia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, part of an agreement linked to a three-day ceasefire earlier this month brokered by U.S.

Russia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, part of an agreement linked to a three-day ceasefire earlier this month brokered by U.S. President ⁠Donald Trump.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was the first step in a bigger prisoner of war swap, after Kyiv and Moscow had agreed to swap 1,000 POWs each under the terms of the agreement.

“205 Ukrainians are home. Most of them had been in Russian captivity since 2022,” Zelenskyy said on the Telegram ⁠app, posting pictures of smiling servicemen, many wrapped ​in Ukrainian ⁠flags.