Ukraine** Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 207 Ukrainian soldiers have returned home under an exchange agreement with Russia.
This is the first such exchange since the crash of a Russian military transport plane on the 24th.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that as part of the exchange agreement, each side received 195 soldiers.
On January 24, a transport plane of the Second Army crashed in Belgorod, which the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Ukraine shot down the plane, killing all 74 people on board, including six crew members and armed guards from the Russian side.
Ukraine neither confirmed nor denied this accusation and demanded evidence of who was on the plane.
Eight days have passed, except for the five bodies that Russia claimed to have found on the day of the crash, the other 69 bodies, and Russia has not been able to release visual evidence.
The wilderness of snow-capped Belgorod should be called a natural cold store, 69 according to the corpses, although mutilated, do not decompose or disappear into thin air.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a statement a few days ago that it will exchange the bodies of the crashed plane, if any, for the relatives of prisoners of war if Russia is no longer able to carry out the exchange of prisoners of war.