Russia and Ukraine Exchange Prisoners of War

‘I am grateful to our team responsible for the exchanges and to the United Arab Emirates for mediating,’ Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Ukrainian soldiers hold flags of their units after a prisoners exchange at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

Russia and Ukraine have each exchanged 95 prisoners of war in negotiations carried out by the United Arab Emirates, both countries reported on July 17.

The Russian Defense Ministry (RDM) first reported the exchange in a post on Telegram in which it stated that the 95 Russian troops who were “in mortal danger in captivity have been returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime.”