Ukraine is working to resume the exchange of prisoners with Russia, hoping for the release of 1,200 Ukrainians, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Security Council chief said. “We are … counting on the resumption of exchanges,” Zelensky said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday. “Many meetings, negotiations and calls are now devoted to this.” His security chief, Rustem Umerov, said on Saturday that he had held consultations in Turkiye and the UAE, with the support of Kyiv’s partners, on resuming the process of exchanges.

Ukraine is working to resume the exchange of prisoners with Russia, hoping for the release of 1,200 Ukrainians, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Security Council chief said.…

Exchanges have been the only progress of any note in negotiations between the two countries in the nearly four-year war.

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he will visit Turkiye on Wednesday, in a bid to “reinvigorate” peace talks and to restore prisoner-of-war exchanges with…