A prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine underway

An exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine is being exchanged, the governments in Moscow and Kyiv confirmed.

President of Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski said the exchange would unfold “in several stages” in the coming days, adding that the wounded, seriously wounded and soldiers under 25 were returned.

Writing on Telegram, Zelenski said: “The process is quite complicated, there are many sensitive details, negotiations continue practically every day.”

Russia said a “similar number” of prisoners of war were returned to Ukraine, although none of the countries had provided an accurate figure for how many people had exchanged.

The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that “the first group of Russian troops under the age of 25 were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime” after an agreement Reached between warring countries last week during talks in TurkeyS

As with past exchanges, Moscow said the exchange of Russian soldiers received psychological and medical care in Belarus.

From the Ukrainian side, relatives of prisoners of war and missing gathered in the Chernihiv area, near the Border with Belarus, to congratulate the released prisoners and in many cases to look for news on others still captured.

Last week, Moscow and Kiev accused each other for violating the planned repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers.

At the end of May, Russia and Ukraine handed over more than 390 soldiers and civilians in the largest prisoners of prisoners, as Russia began a full invasion in 2022.

Meanwhile, the war continued overnight, with Moscow released a record 479 drones in Ukraine, including in the western region of Rivne, which was largely spared by attacks.

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Russian shootings overnight caused damage to several Ukrainian regions, but there were no reports of casualties.

Recently, Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukraine, bringing a new record of drones fired in the country every week.

Kiev, for his part, said he had attacked another Russian air base in the area of ​​Nininski Novgorod, located 400 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine said that the bases house planes that shoot hypersonic rockets and that it damaged “two units of enemy aircraft”.

It is also aimed at an electronics factory, which Kiev says it produces drones and air bombs.

The video shows one of the explosions caused by an attacking drone and a large fire at the plant. The production there is stopped.