During its offensive in the Kursk region of western Russia, Ukraine took many prisoners. Now the first of them have apparently been exchanged.
Russia and Ukraine have completed another major prisoner exchange. Through negotiations, 115 Russian soldiers who were captured in the Kursk region were brought back to their homeland, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. In return, an equal number of Ukrainians were handed over. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the exchange on social networks.
Ukraine is not forgetting anyone and is trying everything to bring its own soldiers back from captivity, wrote Zelensky. He thanked his own troops who had captured Russians. This made the exchange possible. Zelensky had stated more than once that one of the goals of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region was to capture Russian soldiers in order to exchange them for Ukrainian prisoners of war.
After more than two years of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, most diplomatic channels between the two conflicting parties have been closed. The exchange of prisoners of war is one of the few areas where Moscow and Kiev still cooperate with each other.
Source: Stern
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