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Ukraine says it swapped POWs with Russia, in first
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUkraine Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says her country has carried out a first exchange of prisoners of war with Russia.
She says 10 captured Russian soldiers were swapped for 10 Ukrainian troops that had been taken prisoner.
She says as well that 19 Ukrainian merchant marines captured off of Snake Island, where sailors famously told the Russian Navy to fuck off, are being returned in exchange for 11 Russian merchant marines rescued from a ship that sunk off the coast of Odesa.
The moves were ordered by President Volodymyr Zelensky, she says.
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