The Russian Defense Ministry announced a new exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine, involving 270 military personnel on either side, the largest of the last few months.
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23/10/2026
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O Russian Defense Ministry announced today a new exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine, involving 270 military personnel on either side, the largest of recent months.
“ 270 Russian soldiers returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime. On the other hand, 270 prisoners of war from the Ukraine’s Armed Forces were delivered,” said Russian military command, quoted by the TASS agency.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, the exchanged military is now in Belarus, where they were received by Russian ombudsman Yana Lantratova.
After receiving “the psychological and medical assistance needed”, the military will be transferred to Russia for further treatment and rehabilitation in health units of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The previous exchange took place on 19 August, when Moscow and Kiev exchanged 103 military personnel on each side, following another one on 26 June, which involved 160 prisoners on each side.
At the same time, on Thursday, there was an exchange of corpses between the two sides on the border between Ukraine and Belarus.
Russia delivered the bodies of 252 Ukrainian military personnel killed in combat and received from Kiev the bodies of 25 Russian military personnel, according to the Belarusian agency Belta.