Ukraine hopes to restart prisoner exchanges with Russia to bring back 1,200 captives, as Russian forces claim new village gains and drone strikes damage Odesa energy sites. Ukraine reports over 1,217 Russian drone and missile attacks since November 9 amid ongoing winter power shortages.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war under a deal made in Istanbul. Russia released Ukrainian POWs and received its own soldiers, now under care in Belarus. Russia also offered to return over 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers' bodies, but Kyiv representatives didn't show up for the handover.
New York [US], September 23 (ANI): On the sidelines of the 77th UN General Assembly meet, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and held discussions on the Istanbul agreements on exporting Ukrainian food produce from Black Sea p