Russia and Ukraine swap hundreds more prisoners
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Moscow has executed more than 150 prisoners of war after they surrendered to Russian forces, Ukraine’s military intelligence agency has said. The United Nations also reported in March that they had documented increasing numbers of cases in which Russian forces deliberately killed soldiers,
Moscow’s battlefield edge is waning, experts say. But President Donald Trump seems disinclined to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia exchanged 307 more prisoners Saturday as part of a massive swap of detainees – in a rare moment of cooperation between the two nations that came just hours after heavy air
Kyiv. Russia launched 14 ballistic missiles and dozens of drones at Ukraine’s capital overnight on March 24. It's one of the biggest combined aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital of the three-year war, damaging several apartment buildings and injuring 15 people.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cast doubt on Friday over the Vatican as a potential location for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, saying that the Holy See itself would find it uncomfortable to host two mainly Orthodox Christian nations.
Ukraine pioneered the use of small drones on the battlefield. But in Russia’s Kursk region, Moscow’s fiber-optic cables helped turn the tide.
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Al Jazeera on MSNG7 threatens further sanctions if Russia fails to agree Ukraine ceasefireFinance chiefs will ‘explore’ new measures against Moscow should no ceasefire be agreed, although US tempers language.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would not allow Russian-speakers in Ukraine to remain under the rule of what he called a "junta" led by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.