US President Donald Trump said today that a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine has taken place, Reuters reported, BTA reported.
“A major prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine just concluded”, he said on his social network "Truth Social" and added: "Congratulations to both sides on these talks. Could this lead to something big???“
Ukraine has provided Russia with a list of 1,000 prisoners of war in preparation for an upcoming major exchange, a Ukrainian intelligence official said yesterday.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said after Russian-Ukrainian direct talks at the palace "Dolmabahce" in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul earlier this month, that Russia and Ukraine had agreed today to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war.
"In the coming days there will be a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war according to the formula 1,000 for 1,000", the head of the Russian delegation in Istanbul - Vladimir Medinsky, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, told Agence France-Presse at the time.