DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates succeeded in securing the swap of 190 prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia, the state news agency said on Wednesday.
In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that 95 Ukrainian prisoners of war had been returned home from Russia.
Zelenskiy said all of them were from the military and thanked the United Arab Emirates for its help in facilitating the swap.
Last week, Ukrainian media reported that the parliament’s Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets had said the government, with the help of the UAE, was planning “a big” prisoner exchange with Russia soon.
Russia and Ukraine have conducted a few prisoner swaps in the 27-month-old war that started after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor.
