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  • PRISONER SWAP: Ukraine, Russia exchange 300 prisoners of war

    Both sides thanked the United Arab Emirates for their ‘humanitarian mediation efforts.’ Ukraine carried out a prisoner swap with Russia on Wednesday that saw 150 of its fighters returning home, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his Telegram page. Footage posted by Zelenskyy showed jubilant prisoners, many wrapped in Ukrainian flags, getting off buses and being…

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  • Tattoos on body parts and documents prove PoW presence at crash site

    Russia’s Investigative Committee says it has recovered body parts with tattoos like those on captured Ukrainians that Moscow’s forces had interrogated. It claims this proves that Ukrainian prisoners of war were on the plane that crashed on Tuesday.  It said it also collected “documents of Ukrainian servicemen who died in the disaster, confirming their identities, as…

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