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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday he was ready to hand captured North Korean soldiers to Pyongyang in exchange for the return of Ukrainian POWs held in Russia. Zelensky’s offer comes a day after Ukraine announced it had captured two North Korean soldiers wounded fighting against Kyiv’s troops in Russia’s Kursk region. However, Kyiv did […]
Russia and Ukraine swapped more than 300 prisoners of war on Monday in an exchange brokered by the United Arab Emirates ahead of New Year’s Eve, officials from both countries said. The two sides have exchanged hundreds of captive soldiers since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, in one of the […]
Ukraine’s prosecutor has initiated a new investigation into the apparent execution of four Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by Russian forces, in a case that the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), one of the oldest Ukrainian human rights organizations, has described as a clear violation of international law. The investigation focuses on the killing […]