Russia and Ukraine are expected to exchange severely wounded soldiers on Thursday in the latest stage of a large-scale agreement to free more than 1,000 prisoners of war by each side. “Tomorrow, we will begin urgent ‘sanitary exchanges’ of severely wounded prisoners,” Russia’s top negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, posted. Russia’s top negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said Russia had “received the remains of 27 Russian soldiers”. It characterised the plant as one of the main facilities in Russia’s military industrial complex, making gunpowder for small arms, artillery and rocket systems. The Ukrainian military also said it recorded explosions at an ammunition depot in Russia’s Kursk region and an airfield depot in Russia’s Voronezh region.
