In a major exchange amidst ongoing hostilities, Russia and Ukraine have conducted a significant prisoner swap, with each side releasing 195 prisoners of war. This exchange, which is the 50th of its kind, saw the return of 207 Ukrainian prisoners, including both military personnel and civilians. The Ukrainian defenders hailed from various branches such as the Armed Forces, National Guard, State Border Guard Service, and National Police, and included those from key conflict areas like Mariupol, Azovstal, Zmiinyi Island, and the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Kherson, and Sumy directions.
#Russia and #Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war, just a week after Moscow said Kyiv had shot down a plane carrying dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers. https://t.co/Zd4krCrmcR
Russia and Ukraine swap hundreds of POWs, Moscow says https://t.co/0lHzSzSa9C https://t.co/F9cg9yIwz7
Russia and Ukraine conduct largest ever prisoner swap A total of 195 Russian servicemen have returned home, the country’s defense ministry has said https://t.co/h5fGsCaztN https://t.co/SED1UDuMqD
Ukraine and Russia have exchanged around 200 prisoners of war from each side 🔗 Read more https://t.co/EkO7m4235p
Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war on Wednesday, resuming the carefully choreographed trading of captives a week after Russia accused Ukraine of shooting down a Russian plane that it said was carrying Ukrainian prisoners. https://t.co/QZ0xm6K4rN
Russia says it has swapped 195 POWs with Ukraine https://t.co/wCWTgz79DP
Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war just a week after deadly plane crash https://t.co/WXvqwYjc73 https://t.co/uuGvZexihs
Russia And Ukraine Exchange Hundreds Of Prisoners Of War https://t.co/MOdAfpnk6L https://t.co/JDFSk9eTL5
#Ukraine has managed to bring back home 207 Ukrainians, both servicemen and civilians, from captivity in #Russia. https://t.co/mVHJSrpwcm
Ukraine Returns 207 #POWs from Captivity Despite the failed prisoner exchange last Wednesday as the result of a Russian plane crash, #Ukraine today returned 207 soldiers and civilians from captivity. https://t.co/mbiolU76d8
Ukraine and Russia complete first prisoner swap since plane crash https://t.co/kpymIrVjQk
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners for the first officially reported time since a Russian Il-76 military plane, which Russian authorities claim was carrying Ukrainian POWs, crashed in the Belgorod region. https://t.co/M2eAmjogHU
⚠️ RUSSIA AND UKRAINE SAY THEY HAVE COMPLETED A PRISONER EXCHANGE (Reuters) Russia and Ukraine said on Wednesday they had completed a prisoner exchange, the first since the crash last week of a Russian military transport plane that Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian soldiers…
A total of 195 Russian servicemen were returned from Ukrainian captivity, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday citing the Russian Defense Ministry. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the prison swap with Russia in a social media post, adding that 207 Ukrainians… https://t.co/lnwKxzhG4O
🇷🇺🇺🇦RUSSIA AND UKRAINE ANNOUNCE PRISONER EXCHANGE DEAL The swap will see 195 Russian prisoners of war released in exchange for 207 Ukrainian PoWs. The announcement follows last week’s exchange attempt that ended in tragedy with the downing of a plane carrying Ukrainian PoWs.… https://t.co/jwJJQcPMdJ https://t.co/eZpqqiqJOO
Russia and Ukraine swap around 400 prisoners, renewing exchanges a week after the downing of a plane that Moscow claimed was carrying detainees for transfer to Kyiv https://t.co/u3oiNb01vC
‼️ Today marked the 50th prisoner exchange: Ukraine has returned 207 defenders. Among the released servicemen are defenders of Mariupol, Kherson, fighters from Snake Island, marines, and combat medics. https://t.co/QPnjRiYvCD
⚡ Russian Ministry of Defence: • As a result of the negotiation process, 195 Russian soldiers, who were in mortal danger, in captivity, were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime. In return, 195 prisoners of war from the Ukrainian Armed Forces were… https://t.co/0vapPLVVjK
⚡️ Zelensky: 207 Ukrainian prisoners return home from Russian captivity. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 207 Ukrainian prisoners returned home from Russian captivity on Jan. 31. https://t.co/1YIJccudS9
BREAKING: Russia’s Defense Ministry says Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 195 prisoners of war each. https://t.co/i95u7kTjla
Today, 207 Ukrainian defenders returned home from the russian captivity. Defenders of Mariupol, "Azovstal", Zmiinyi Island, warriors from the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Kherson and Sumy directions. We will never leave our people behind! We will return all of them… https://t.co/nqe7tusupp
207 Ukrainian defenders are finally home! Warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Guard, State Border Guard Service, and National Police have returned from Russian captivity. Welcome back home! 🥹 🇺🇦 https://t.co/I2T9WeE1ry
207 Ukrainian prisoners of war are back home today. Another swap took place. This is always good news, since we know how horrible are conditions in Russian camps where our fighters are kept. People's lives are Ukraine's priority.
🔥BREAKING🔥 Today was the 50th exchange of prisoners. We are returning our people from Russian captivity. 207 Ukrainians - soldiers of the Armed Forces, National Guard, DPSU, National Police - privates, sergeants and officers. Many defenders of Mariupol, soldiers who were on… https://t.co/PEAH2FmJQ8
#BREAKING Russia and Ukraine say hundreds of POWs exchanged https://t.co/KIAzeyt6qP
Russia's Defence Ministry says Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 195 prisoners of war each, reports AP
A big prisoner exchange took place. 207 Ukrainian defenders were returned home. 💪💙💛 https://t.co/mk73AbUI0V
Our people are back. 207 of them. We return them home no matter what. We remember each Ukrainian in captivity. Both warriors and civilians. We must bring all of them back. We are working on it. The Ukrainian team has done another excellent job. Budanov, Yermak, Usov, Maliuk,… https://t.co/ZNNdTz3mKO
❗️#Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange with #Russia. 207 people, including both military and civilians, have returned home, President Volodymyr #Zelensky reported. 📷: Volodymyr Zelensky https://t.co/seBaSoedsn
⚡️ 207 people return to Ukraine from Russian captivity in a prisoner exchange - President Zelenskyy. https://t.co/cw23rC3ynh
‼️ Russian Defense Ministry has reported the exchange of prisoners with Ukraine on the 195-195 formula However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a post in his Telegram channel in which he said that 207 people had returned home. It is possible that in addition… https://t.co/eWcmSIa20p
⚠️ UKRAINE SAYS RUSSIA NOT HANDING OVER ALLEGED POWS BODIES FROM CRASHED PLANE (Reuters) A Ukrainian military spy official said on Tuesday that Russia was showing no willingness to return the bodies of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war Moscow says died in a military plane… https://t.co/Jx5QGloOc7
The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirms that 65 Ukrainian defenders from a list published by Russian media were indeed scheduled to be returned to Ukraine as part of the planned exchange on January 24. Previously, some of the names… https://t.co/lTO5bGeCxL