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Russia and Ukraine on Sunday replaced hundreds of prisoners just hours after Moscow launched one of the biggest air attacks More than a three -year war between the two countries.
The change in prisoners was the third and last part of a large exchange, which marked a rare moment of cooperation.
The Russian Ministry of Defense They said both sides exchanged more than 300 soldiers. This was followed by the release of 307 fighters and civilians on Saturday, and 390 on Friday – the biggest overall replacement of the war so far.
“303 Ukrainian defenders are at home,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on x, confirming the exchange.
Russia runs the biggest air attack by the Ukrainian War, killing at least 12
Ukrainian soldier Vitaly, hugs his wife Olen, after returning from captivity during the exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine, in the Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
He said that the troops returning to Ukraine were members of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, the Service of the State Border Guard and the State Special Service.
In the interviews held earlier this month in Istanbul-first face face to face between the warring parties in recent peace negotiations-Kiev and Moscow agreed to replace 1,000 prisoners of war and civilian detainees. The exchange was the only tangible outcome from the conversation.
The exchange followed only a few hours after Russia launched a huge attack of drones, targeting the Ukrainian capital, Kiev and other regions, killing at least 12 people, pointing three children and injuring dozens more.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that air defense forces work in the capital against enemy drones. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Harlak Military Administration, said Charkiv and his suburbs were also attacked drones.
The main replacement of Russia-Ukrain prisoner is underway, says the clerk
Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukraine Air Force, said Associated Press that Russia used a total of 69 rockets of different species and 298 unmanned flyers – the largest individual air attack of war.
The Russian Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, said his air defense had overthrown 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The relatives depict photographs of the missing soldiers of prisoners of war returning from Russian captivity during the exchanges of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, in the Chernyhiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
The last round of violence came while President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday that he was not “satisfied” by the Russian strike against Ukraine.
Speaking at the Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, the President accused Putin of “killing a lot of people” in the attack.
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“I’m not happy with what Putin does,” Trump said. “He kills a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.”
He later spread to his comments in the social post of truth, Trump said Putin “went crazy!”
At this pool, a photo shared by the Russian State Agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired the Council of Security Council through a video conference in Kremlin in Moscow on March 28, 2025. (Sergei Ilyin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
“I always said that [Putin] He wants all Ukraine, not just a part of it, and maybe it turns out to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the fall of Russia! “, The post on social media was listed. But the president also criticized Zelenskyy.
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“Likewise, President Zelenskyy does not do his country, not favoring the way he does. Everything from his mouth creates problems, I don’t like it, and it is better to stop,” Trump wrote, concluding: “This is a war that would never be president. This is Grossy, Putin and Bid’s Out, Am Trump,” incompetence and hatred. ”
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Margolis and Associated Press contributed to this report.
