Russia and Ukraine Swap Scores of POWs Despite Tensions Over Plane Crash Last Week

Russia and Ukraine Swap Scores of POWs Despite Tensions Over Plane Crash Last Week
A Ukrainian serviceman installs an electronic warfare system to quell Russian drones at the front line near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Jan. 29, 2024. Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo
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KYIV, Ukraine—Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week’s crash of a military transport plane that Moscow said was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv’s forces.

After the Jan. 24 crash of the Il-76 plane in Russia’s Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine, some Russian officials had publicly questioned the possibility of future POW swaps.