Russia, Ukraine and prisoner swap
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We talk to Anastasia - the wife of a Ukrainian soldier held captive since 2022, and released in May. But his new found freedom came against a backdrop of continuing Russian attacks on cities across Ukraine. We talk about whether we are seeing the retaliation for operation 'Spider Web'.
More than 1,000 Ukrainian bodies have been handed back to Kyiv after a prisoner-of-war exchange - as Volodymyr Zelenskyy renews calls for sanctions. The Ukrainian president said on social media that many of those released by Russia had been "held captive since 2022".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would press on with plans for a prisoner swap with Moscow, although he expressed doubts about a successful outcome, while his military leaders denied Russian claims that its forces had for the first time advanced into the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart towards the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap.
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Ukrainska Pravda on MSNNew stage of prisoner swap completed: some released Ukrainian soldiers had been considered missing – photos, videosUnder the Istanbul agreements, another group of severely wounded and seriously ill service members were brought back to Ukraine from Russian captivity on 12 June. Source: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter);