"Exchanges will continue. We are doing everything we can to find and repatriate every individual in captivity," writes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in a post on X.
He publishes photos and video clips of smiling soldiers, all with shaved heads, wrapped in Ukrainian flags. Yesterday's exchange is according to Zelenskyj the first where severely injured soldiers return from Russian captivity.
Russia's Defense Ministry confirms the exchange in a post on social media.
"In accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian agreement of June 2 in Istanbul, a second group of Russian soldiers has been repatriated," writes them.
It is unclear how many soldiers were involved in yesterday's round, which is the second under the agreement reached on June 2. At the time, an agreement was reached to release all seriously injured prisoners of war, all soldiers under 25 years old, and remains of 6,000 fallen soldiers.
