Russia and Ukraine agree to a large exchange of prisoners of war, officials say
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Russia and Ukraine agreed in US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi to carry out a large exchange of prisoners of war, delegation heads Vladimir Medinsky and Rustem Umerov confirmed.
The BBC reported that both sides said the swap could happen soon, though the two days of talks produced no sign of a breakthrough in the nearly five-year war.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will fly to Moscow on Thursday to meet Vladimir Putin, then go to Dublin to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy, who did not attend the talks, called the second day "constructive and quite substantive".
Davyd Arakhamia of Ukraine's team called this round, the first since February, "one of the hardest" and urged a second round as soon as possible.
Medinsky said some issues had reached mutual understanding and more talks would follow, but that a lot depended on Ukraine, the US and whether Europe "comes to its senses".
“I believe the Russians came with very strict directives, so it was extremely difficult to soften the discussion”
BBC
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