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On May 24, 2025

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Russia and the Ukraine want to continue the greatest prisoner exchange since the start of the war. Wolodymyr Selenskyj in his evening video message.

“There isn’t any higher pleasure,” wrote the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha in the platform X. “Such humanitarian confidence -building measures are essential for our steady work to revive peace.”

During the greatest exchange in the Russian attack war on the Russian attack war, which has been going on for more than three years, 390 returnees were handed over to the other side on Friday. According to the responsible Kiev coordination team, three women and 387 men from Russian captivity were released. The released soldiers had therefore defended the Ukraine in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Saporischschja, Kharkiw and Cherson regions. All released would be medically examined and received physical and psychological help.

According to the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, 270 prisoners of war and 120 civilians from Ukrainian captivity were released. Among the civilians are also citizens from the temporarily controlled places in the Russian area of Kursk. “The Russian troopers and civilians are presently within the territory of the Republic of Belarus, the place they obtain the mandatory psychological and medical assist,” said the message. They should all come to Russia soon to continue their treatment and rehabilitation in medical institutions.

The exchange was agreed last week during talks in Istanbul. He remained the only concrete result of the first direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations since 2022, to which US President Donald Trump had been urged.

Lavrow guarantees the subsequent step

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that the Ukraine soon presented conditions for termination of the war ongoing for more than three years, as the Russian agency Interfax reported. “As quickly because the prisoner of battle has been accomplished, we will probably be prepared at hand over the design of such a doc that the Russian facet is now finishing,” he stated.

Selenskyj stated that if Russia wants an entire week to current a so -called memorandum in response to the demand for a ceasefire, “then that is nothing greater than a mockery of the world. So a lot wasted time”. The Ukrainian President confirmed that new sanctions against Russia are necessary.

Air alarm in Ukraine

Meanwhile, the attacks continued. In the event of a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev and its surroundings, at least eight people were injured at night. They were hit by falling rubble of shot drones. After the entry of the first groups of fight drones, Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned the inhabitants of the metropolis of further attacks. “Go to cowl,” he requested the residents of Kiev on the Telegram platform.

Military administrator Timur Tkatschenko reported on Telegram of damage due to falling drone debris. Fires broke out in residential buildings in two districts. The emergency services are in use.

In the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, the number of dead rose to two after a Russian attack with two ballistic rockets, the governor Oleh Kiper near Telegram wrote. Previously, there was talk of a dead and eight injuries.

Even with another Russian rocket attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Tschuhujiw, a person died. A woman was killed, said the governor of the Kharkiwer area, Oleh Synjehubow, at Telegram. In addition, two men were injured. In the late evening, air alarm was triggered in large parts of Ukraine, also in the capital Kiev.

Putin needs to broaden Russian arms exports

Meanwhile, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin introduced that he wished to spice up Russian arms exports to different international locations. “It is important to actively enlarge the scope of export deliveries,” he said during a speech broadcast on state television at a meeting of the Committee for Military-Technical Cooperation. The order stock for Russian military products is high – in terms of dozens of billions of euros.

The supply of the units in the Ukraine War remained decisive and in the first place, Putin said. There should be new state incentives. At the same time, Russia had to assert its position on the international armaments market and exist in the event of hard competition. Last year Moscow had largely fulfilled his export commitments among foreign partners. A broader spectrum of services should be offered in the future.

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