{"id":378,"date":"2025-06-10T04:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-and-ukraine-exchange-prisoners-of-war-in-emotional-scenes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T04:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T04:34:47","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-exchange-prisoners-of-war-in-emotional-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-and-ukraine-exchange-prisoners-of-war-in-emotional-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners of war in emotional scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war under the age of 25 in emotional homecoming scenes, the first step in a series of planned prisoner swaps that could become the biggest swap of the war so far.<\/p>\n

The exchange was the result of direct talks between the two sides in Istanbul on June 2 that resulted in an agreement to exchange at least 1,200 prisoners of war (POWs) on each side and to repatriate thousands of bodies of those killed in Russia’s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The return of POWs and the repatriation of the bodies of the dead is one of the few things the two sides have managed to agree on as broader negotiations have failed to get close to ending the war, now in its fourth year.<\/p>\n

Fighting has raged on, with Russia saying on Monday its forces had taken control of more territory in Ukraine’s east-central region of Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv saying Moscow had launched its largest drone attack of the war.<\/p>\n