Russia and Ukraine They started the main prisoner exchange A resentment of hundreds of soldiers and civilians.
Denotes the first phase of the exchange that marked the moment of cooperation abroad otherwise failed efforts to Reach a truce in a three-year war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the first phase brought home 390 Ukrainians, including soldiers and civilians, with further releases expected during the weekend to make the largest war exchanges.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that he received the same number from Ukraine.
“It is very important to bring everyone home,” Zelensky’s on telegram, thanks to everyone who worked to ensure their return and lied to continue diplomatic efforts to be able to reach that possible diplomatic efforts.
Dozens of cousins of prisoners cheered and sang “Thank you!” As the buses released by prisoners arrived in the Medical Institution in the Cernihiv region in Ukraine.
Men, some with expressive persons and others are unable to contain their emotions, were not of buss wrapped in Ukrainian flags for joyful renewal.
Kiev And Moscow agreed in Istanbul last week in the exchange of 1,000 prisoners on each side in their first direct peace negotiations since the early weeks of Russia 2022 invasions. That encounter lasted only two hours and did not bring a breakthrough in efforts on the efforts on which LED in the USA stops fight.
The replacement took place on the border with Belarus in Northern Ukraine, states the Ukrainian official who spoke about the state of anonymity because it was not authorized to speak publicly.
The dismissed Russians were taken to the Belarus for Medical Treatment, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced.
The exchange that would be the latest tenth of the replaced request from the war, and at one time the Ukrainian civilians were involved, he did not encounter waiting in the fight.
The battles continued about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of the front line, where tens of thousands of soldiers were killed, and no land returned in deep strikes.
Russia has launched two ballistic missiles on infrastructure goals in the southern Ukrainian port of OdessaKilling two workers and hurting eight others, according to the regional government. Oleh tipper. It was the first recorded attack on the port of 11. March.
Moscow forces attacked settlements in the Kherson region, and artillery, mortars and drones kill three civilians and injuries 10 during the day, according to the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
They also installed the KostyanTyniv with artillery, killing one civilian, said Serhii Horbunov, the head of the city’s military administration.
As the released people entered the medical institution, people who have signs and photographs of their cousins shed or brigade numbers, looking for news from a loved one. Return men were reviewed by photographs, and the service said he shared a cell with one of those on the sea of portrait held towards him.
“Vanya!” He shouted Natalia Mosych, among the gathered relatives, “My husband!”
She didn’t see her husband, Ivan, almost two years, she said, twinkling.
“It’s an amazing feeling. I’m still in shock,” Mosych said after he went outside to greet his family after registration proceedings within the building. “I’m really glad, and we weren’t forgotten, and we still know something about Ukraine.”
Many have been released cut shock and disbelief that they exchanged them. Some had problems remembering the name and details about their lives before their capture.
One was released by the bandage in a video call with his girlfriend that he was a little older in his three-year leave, and she replied that she was as beautiful as always.
Many relatives became clear, their loved ones were not among them, and they hoped that those who were released could at least offer some information about their husbands, brothers and sons.
“Maybe my father will come tomorrow,” a little boy cried.
The news about the release of prisoners appeared when US president Donald Trump said that Russia and Ukraine made a large exchange.
“The main replacement prisoners is just completed between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump said on the social platform of the truth. He said he would “get into effect soon.”
Added in the post that “this can lead to something big ???” – It obviously applies to other diplomatic efforts to stop the fight.
After talks 16. Maja, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called the prisoner replace the “Measure of Constitution” and said the parties agreed to agree on the principle.
But the spokesman of the Kremlja Dmitry sand told Friday that he had not yet agreed on the place for the next round of conversation as a diplomatic maneuver.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday evening that Moscow would give Ukraine’s draft document that made his terms for “sustainable, long-term” peace agreement after being trapped.
European leaders accused Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull their legs in peace efforts, while he tries to press his inheritance of the Bojan Field of the Greater Army and catch more Ukrainian countries.
The Istanbul meeting revealed that both sides remained far on key conditions for the end of the fight. One such situation for Ukraine, supported by Western Union, is a temporary truce as the first step towards a quiet settlement.
Kremlin returned to the temporary stopping of hostilities, and Putin said that any such truce must come with freezing in weapons in Ukraine and the end of Ukraine mobilization ride.
The older Ukrainian official said in Istanbul that Russia presented new, “unacceptable requirements” to withdraw Ukrainian forces from the huge fire space of the territory. An officer who is not authorized to give official statements, he talked to the corresponding press on the state of anonymity. The proposal has not discussed earlier, the official said.
Putin was long looking for as a key condition for the peace contract to draw up his troops from four regions that Russia has enclosed in September 2022. years, but never fully controlled.
Zelensky has warned that if Russia continues to reject the truce and brings “unrealistic requirements”, will signal intentional efforts to extend the war – a move that should bring more severe international sanctions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that he collapsed 788 Ukrainian drones from the Battlefield between 20. May and 23. May.
Ukraine The aviation power said Russia shot 175 drones with hollow and decolium, as well as a ballistic rocket from the end of Thursday.