Olha embraces her son Yevhen, a freed Ukrainian prisoner of war (POW), as he left a bus after a swap, in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Aug. 24, 2025. Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters
MOSCOW—Russia and Ukraine exchanged 146 prisoners of war from each side on Sunday after mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the Russian defense ministry and the Ukrainian president said.
The Russian ministry said all of the freed Russians were in Belarus receiving psychological and medical assistance.
