The Ukrainian body dealing with the affairs of prisoners of war said that Russia at the last moment on Saturday canceled a planned exchange of prisoners of war.
“Today, another round of the prisoner exchange process with the Russian side was planned … but it was canceled at the last moment at the initiative of the Russian side,” the Coordinating Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said in a Telegram message. messaging app.
Russia and Ukraine have held several prisoner exchanges, most recently on January 8, involving hundreds of prisoners from both sides in a war now in its eleventh month.
On Saturday, Moskalkova said on her Telegram account that Russian soldiers reported cases of extortion while in Ukrainian captivity.