Russia and Ukraine have. Hundreds of prisoners of war were exchanged. In an agreement brokered by the United Arab Emirates.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had exchanged the same number of 150 Ukrainian soldiers held hostage with Russian troops. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that 189 Ukrainians have returned to their homeland.
The BBC’s Will Vernon saw freed Ukrainians reunited with loved ones at a site in the north of the country.