Russia and Ukraine have completed the first phase of what is expected to be the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the war, with almost 800 people released on Friday.

Russia and Ukraine are preparing to hold a new prisoners of war (POWs) exchange mediated by Turkey after the second round of peace talks, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on June 2 at the Bucharest Nine (B9) summit.

We assume that it will probably be 1,200 people on each side, and this will again be the largest exchange of prisoners of war,' says Vladimir Medinsky