CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine began a major prisoner exchange Friday, swapping hundreds of soldiers and civilians in the first phase of an exchange that was a moment of ...

Both Russia, Ukraine confirm exchange of war prisoners without specifying number of swapped troops - Anadolu Ajansı

Russia has given Ukraine the bodies of a thousand slain soldiers in a small, grim gesture of good faith, living up to at least part of an agreement struck during negotiations last month.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian peer Vladimir Putin focused, on Friday, on bilateral relations, a

Three days earlier, the war had spilled across the breadth of Russia as the Ukrainians smuggled a fleet of cheap drones across the border and used them to attack several military airfields, damaging or destroying Russian warplanes worth billions of dollars.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to a new prisoner swap and the return of thousands of war dead during talks in Istanbul on June 2. The first round of Istanbul talks, the first direct negotiations between the warring sides in three years, were held in May.