“After tense negotiations, we were able to reach agreements on the exchange of prisoners near the village of Posad-Pokrovskoye, where four Russian soldiers were exchanged with the five of us,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said. Russian troops have seized the town of Kherson, the administrative capital of the region where the exchange took place on Friday. The exchange followed a statement from Kyiv on Thursday for the fourth exchange of prisoners since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 24. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said a total of 30 people from the Ukrainian side took part in the exchange. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week offered to exchange pro-Kremlin tycoon Viktor Medvedchuk, one of the richest men in Ukraine who was arrested in Kyiv after escaping from house arrest, with Ukrainians arrested in Russia. .
