prisoner exchange

People in hazmat suits carry what is said to be remains of Ukrainian soldiers received from Russia in an unknown location in a screen grab from a Handout video released on June 13, 2025. Security Service Of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners of war, but Moscow received no war dead, Russia says

Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are seen as they return after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, May 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Europe

Russia and Ukraine swap 307 soldiers on second day of POW exchange

People react as they watch news coverage, on the day of the release of four hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, and two others, who entered Gaza around a decade ago and have been held there since, as part of a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel February 22, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo
Middle East

Israel looks to extend phase one of Gaza truce as long-term deal proves elusive

A man looks at pictures and memorabilia related to fallen soldiers, hostages and people killed during the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, ahead of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, at a public square in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Shir Torem/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Hamas says next hostages will be released on Saturday as scheduled

People gather around a bus carrying freed Palestinian prisoners after their release from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, outside the Israeli military prison, Ofer, near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Hamas-Israel war

Tears, hugs greet 90 Palestinian women, children freed from Israeli prisons

Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, Gaza City, October 27, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ayman Al Hassi
Hamas-Israel war

Egypt proposes short Gaza truce with small hostage-prisoner exchange

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

85 Bangladeshis returning on Sunday; 120 BGP and army personnel to return to Myanmar

Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are seen after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at an unknown location in Ukraine, in this handout picture released on September 14, 2024. Photo: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Via Telegram/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

Russia, Ukraine exchange 206 prisoners in second swap in two days

Kyiv and Moscow have held rounds of prisoner exchanges throughout the more than two-year war. Photo: AFP
Europe

Russia, Ukraine exchange 230 prisoners of war

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, following a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia August 1, 2024. Photo: Sputnik/Mikhail Voskresensky/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight, Kremlin says

Ukrainian soldiers are pictured in their tanks, amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine, in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 2, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
Europe

Russia, Ukraine to exchange 90 prisoners of war on Wednesday, Bloomberg reports

A still image from a video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be captured Russian service personnel in a bus following the latest exchange of prisoners of war at an unknown location in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in this image taken from handout footage released June 25, 2024. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

UAE says it succeeded in mediating an exchange of 180 prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine

Johan Floderus, after being imprisoned in Iran, is reunited with his family at Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, Sweden 15 June 2024. Photo: TT News Agency/Tom Samuelsson / Regeringkansliet via REUTERS
Europe

Sweden and Iran exchange prisoners in breakthrough deal