Zelenskyy says Ukraine, Russia to exchange ls this week for POW swap | World News

Ukraine and Russia agreed at talks in anbul on Monday next week to give each other ls of people they want included in a planned prisoner of war swap, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy told an online news briefing that negotiators for Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners each, with the possibility of swapping an additional 200 POWs.
He said there was also agreement to return the remains of killed service personnel, but this would take careful preparation.
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Zelenskyy also said Ukrainian negotiators gave their Russian counterparts a l of nearly 400 children it wanted Russia to return home to Ukraine, but that the Russian delegation agreed to work on returning only 10 of them.
Further, the Ukrainian leader referred to a Ukrainian intelligence operation on Sunday, codenamed “Spider’s Web”, in which drones smuggled inside wooden sheds attacked Russian military airfields.
He said the operation had helped to restore partners’ confidence that Ukraine is able to continue waging its war against Russia’s invasion.