Russia and Ukraine swap scores of POWs despite tensions over a plane crash last week

Russia and Ukraine swap scores of POWs despite tensions over a plane crash last week

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 claimed 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. FRANCE 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.