The Russian Ministry of Defense reportedly said on Saturday that its troops had captured two settlements in the Donetsk region and one in the northern area of Ukraine. Development came when the two warring nations organized the “greatest prisoner exchange” on May 23 and May 24. In addition, Russia reportedly launched a massive attack of drones and disappeared to Ukraine and left several dead.
Here are all the latest updates of the Russian-Ukraine War:
1. Russia allegedly intensified its attack on Ukraine. A massive Russian attack on Drones-A-Misile killed at least nine people and injured dozens in Ukraine overnight until Sunday, officials were quoted AFP as a proverb.
Four people were reported dead in the region of Western Khmelnytskyi, four in the Kiev region – which came under the attack on the other night – and one in mycoliva in the south.
2. The latest attack came when both sides watched their greatest exchange of prisoners from full invasion of Ukraine Moscow in February 2022.
Russian media TASS announced on Sunday that the Ministry of Defense Russia He previously said that 307 Russian soldiers were returned from Ukraine in accordance with bilateral agreements achieved in Istanbul. In return, 307 Ukrainian soldiers were returned. That was the second prisoner.
In the first swap on May 23, Russian Ministry of Defense He said that 270 soldiers and 120 civilians returned to Russia. On the other hand, 270 Ukrainian soldiers and 120 civilians were brought back to Ukraine, Kiev informed Independent.
The exchange was a rare moment of cooperation between the fighting parties.
3. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova said Zvezda The fact that the last exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine, proposed by Russia, has shown that the West is wrong, that Moscow does not want to negotiate.
“This is an effective and practical example of how our country behaves on the world scene, even in connection with the Ukrainian crisis. This example completely knocks down the arguments of the entire liberal-west community that Russia does not want to negotiate, that it is not ready,” she quoted.
4. Meanwhile, Russian troops have increased the intensity of their offensive in Donetsk in recent weeks. According to Ukraine news“The worrying situations for the Ukrainian troops are now developing south of the city of Kostiannivka …”
The Russian troops reportedly advanced towards the bostiants from two directions and slowly closed to the Ukrainian pocket west of Toretsk.
5. At least nine people were killed in a massive Russian attack on drones and Misile focused on Ukraine on the second consecutive night, the officials said soon on Sunday. The attack occurred on the third day of the planned prisoner between Russia and Ukraine – the only tangible result of peace talks in Istanbul earlier.
6. In interviews that took place in Istanbul at the beginning of this month, both sides met in the face of peace interviews from the Russian invasion by 2022-Kyev and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war and every civilian detained. They failed to achieve an agreement on the ceasefire.
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