Russia and Ukraine exchanged 206 prisoners of war on Saturday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
"A total of 103 Russian servicemen who were taken prisoner in the Kursk region have been released. In exchange, 103 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been transferred," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
All the exchanged Russian soldiers are now in Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary assistance. The United Arab Emirates facilitated the exchange through humanitarian mediation, it added.
Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday that this was the second exchange in two days.
In a Telegram post, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 103 Ukrainian military personnel, including 21 officers, had been released.
Russia, Ukraine swap war prisoners
Russia, Ukraine swap war prisoners
Russia, Ukraine swap war prisoners
China registered a sharp surge in interregional passenger trips during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday season which ended Tuesday, according to the latest official data released by the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of China's most important traditional holidays, taking place annually on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.
During the holiday this year, a total of 629.564 million interregional passenger trips were recorded nationwide, with a daily average exceeding 209.854 million.
The daily trips surged by 31.1 percent compared with the same period of 2023, and were 16.1 percent higher than the corresponding figure recorded in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.
Specifically, the number of interregional passenger trips handled by railways, roads, waterways, and air travel were 42.573 million, 579.94 million, 1.981 million, and 5.069 million, respectively.
China registers sharp surge interregional passenger trips during Mid-Autumn Festival holiday
