Russia and Ukraine agree to large prisoners of war swap, Trump's envoy says

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Russia and Ukraine have agreed a large exchange of prisoners of war, officials at US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi said overnight, as a Ukrainian MP added there has been "really big…

Russia and Ukraine have agreed a large exchange of prisoners of war, officials at US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi said overnight, as a Ukrainian MP added there has been "really big progress" on some issues.

"One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we're going to finalise the numbers tomorrow," Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, said after the two days of talks in the United Arab Emirates ended.

Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky and Rustem Umerov, who led Ukraine's delegation in Abu Dhabi, confirmed the planned exchange.

The swap may ‌happen ‌in ⁠the next two to three weeks, Russian news agency ⁠TASS cited ‌Russian lieutenant-general Alexander Zorin as saying.

Hopes were low for a major breakthrough in the first meeting between the delegations in nine months.

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Russia and Ukraine have from time to time swapped prisoners during their nearly five-year war.

Kushner said he and fellow US envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow on Thursday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin "to go over what was discussed today".

The two would then fly to Dublin for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is due to attend a meeting of European leaders there.

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