Russia says it has swapped 270 POWs, 120 civilians with Ukraine
MOSCOW, May 23 (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine have swapped 270 prisoners of war (POW) and 120 civilians with each other, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday, confirming the largest such exchange in the more than three-year-old war yet.
The exchange is the first step in a 1,000 people for 1,000 people swap which Russia said was its initiative and which was agreed at direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on May 16.
The ministry said that other parts of the same swap would unfold in the coming days and that Ukraine had handed over civilians which the Ukrainian military had captured in Russia's Kursk region during a long incursion there.
The freed Russian servicemen and civilians were currently in Belarus, which neighbours Ukraine, and were receiving psychological and medical assistance before being moved to Russia for further care, it said.
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