Russia, Ukraine working on a large prisoner exchange deal: Turkish ombusdman

Russia and Ukraine have conducted numerous prisoner swaps - most recently on Jan. 8 - amounting to hundreds of captives each in the course of the war, which is now in its 11th month.

Russia and Ukraine have been working on a large prisoner exchange deal which will include 1,000 people in total, Turkish ombudsman Seref Malkoc said on Monday. Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets met last week on the sidelines of an international ombudsman conference in Ankara.

"The ombudsman of Ukraine conveyed to Russia a list of 800 people and the Russian Ombusdman gave a list of 200 people (to be swapped)," Malkoc told reporters at a news conference. The ombudsmen of Russia and Ukraine exchanged the lists at a meeting attended by Malkoc, he said, adding that Turkey was ready to provide a "humanitarian corridor" in Istanbul for any such swap of prisoners.

President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed exchanging men wounded in Ukraine among other issues in a phone call on Monday, the Kremlin said. Russia and Ukraine have conducted numerous prisoner swaps - most recently on Jan. 8 - amounting to hundreds of captives each in the course of the war, which is now in its 11th month.

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