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A major prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine is now under way, according to a Ukrainian source familiar with the matter.
The swap started on Friday and is expected to unfold over several days with Kyiv and Moscow swapping hundreds of prisoners.
The agreement to release 1,000 prisoners on each side was the only significant outcome of the meeting between Kyiv and Moscow in Istanbul last week, which marked the first time the two sides have met directly since soon after Russia’s full-scale unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Istanbul meeting was initially proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to a…
