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More than 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war against the same number of Russian prisoners of war were exchanged before a three-day ceasefire wanted by Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had exchanged on Tuesday, May 6, 205 Ukrainian prisoners of war against the same number of Russian prisoners of war, at the day before a three-day ceasefire unilaterally decreed by Vladimir Putin.
“On May 6, 205 Russian soldiers were dismissed from the territory controlled by the kyiv regime and 205 prisoners of war from the Ukrainian armed forces were presented in exchange,” the Russian ministry said in a statement.
Massive attack of Ukrainian drones
This rare exchange comes when Ukraine launched on the night of this Monday, May 6 to Tuesday, May 6, more than one hundred drones on Russian territory, targeting Moscow in particular and temporarily disrupting the functioning of a dozen airports, three days from the commemorations of victory over Nazi Germany.
-In the process, the Kremlin warned that the Russian army would respond “immediately” in the event of a Ukrainian attack during the unilateral ceasefire ordered by Vladimir Putin from May 8 to 10, that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky recently described as “attempted manipulation”.
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Ukraine, after more than three years of a Russian offensive which led to the death of tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers, still pleads, under pressure from Washington, for an “unconditional” stop of hostilities before negotiations with Russia. Moscow, on the contrary, wants concrete commitments on his requests before any overall end of hostilities.
