New prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia
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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.
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Russia on Saturday said another 307 prisoners of war (POWs) had been swapped in the second day of a large exchange with Ukraine. On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's Defense Ministry said they had each handed over 390 POWs.
The second round of a major planned POW swap between Russia and Ukraine went ahead on Saturday, hours after Ukraine’s capital was attacked by a sustained Russian drone and missile barrage.