War in Ukraine: Moscow and Kyiv swap prisoners – massive air strikes

Russia and Ukraine have started with another prisoner exchange. The first group of Russian soldiers under the age of 25 was released from Ukrainian captivity, the Ministry of Defense said in Moscow. A similar number of prisoners were handed over to Ukraine. The Ministry did not name an exact number. Kiev confirmed the exchange, which had been agreed in direct negotiations in both warring parties at the beginning of the month.

According to Moscow, the Russian soldiers are currently in Belarus and receive medical help there.

Young and seriously injured soldiers return

“Our people are at home,” wrote the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj on the X. Among the returnees are serious injuries in addition to young soldiers. Selenskyj also did not name a specific number. According to it, the exchange process is associated with difficulties. However, he expects that the agreement negotiated in Istanbul is fully implemented. Most recently, there had been disputes between Moscow and Kyiv about the time of the exchange.

In the second round of negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian representatives in Istanbul a week ago, both sides had agreed to exchange prisoners and corpses of fallen soldiers. In the conversations, both sides had agreed to exchange seriously injured or sick prisoners of war between 18 and 25 years of age. This could affect more than 1,000 people from each side. The exchange was originally expected at the weekend.

Drone war reaches new escalation level

Meanwhile, the war continues with a tighter intensity. According to Kiev, Moscow used a record number of drones on the nightly air raids. The count of the Ukrainian flight defense was 479 fighter drones of the Schahed or their dummies. In addition, Russia also shot the neighboring country with 20 rockets and marching flight bodies, including 4 modern Kinschal hyperschallrakets.

The number of drones used by Russia has recently increased to new record highs. The background is, according to military experts, the drastically increased emission of such flight devices by Russia’s armaments management. Attacks with 500 or more drones could soon be part of everyday life in Ukraine.

Several injuries in Riwne and Saporischschja

While the Ukrainian Air Force reported the shooting of 479 attack objects, impacts were also registered in various regions to the west of the country. According to military governor Olexander Kowal, there was an injured person in the West Ukrainian region of Riwne. According to governor Iwan Fedorow, three civilians were even injured in the Saporischschja area, which has been difficult to compete since the beginning of the war, and the air raids lasted until the morning.

There were also impacts in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Charkiw. The latter region – already the goal of heavy attacks at the weekend – was according to the information, especially with directed sliding bombs.

Russian attacks on Ukraine put Poles in alarm

Poland has had a rip off hunter due to the intensive Russian air raid on destinations in Ukraine. Polish and allied combat jets were activated early Monday morning, the operational management command in Warsaw said at X.

The air defense and radar reconnaissance systems on the ground were also made available in accordance with the applicable procedures. These measures had preventive character and served to monitor the situation in the immediate border area.

Ukraine reports on its own goal in Russia

In turn, Ukraine caused damage in Russia with its own drone attacks. An electronics factory was attacked in the Russian sub -Republic of Tschuwaschien on the Volga. According to the Ukrainian general staff, the company was the goal of Russian weapons because of its antenna production.

The governor of the region about 650 kilometers from Moscow, Oleg Nikolayev, confirmed the attack. Two drones fell on the site of the Wniir factory in the city of Cscheboksary, two more drones on fields, he wrote at Telegram. There are no injuries.

The general staff in Kiev also announced that they had attacked a military airfield in the Nischni Novgorod region. According to preliminary information, two fighter planes were met, the general staff said. The information cannot be confirmed independently.