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		</div><p>Ukraine and Russia have exchanged 195 prisoners of war each, Russia’s defence ministry has said.</p>
<p>The swap happened on Wednesday, it added.</p>
<p>It comes a week after Russia accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were going to be swapped for Russian counterparts.</p>
<p>Missiles fired from across the border brought down the plane in Russia’s Belgorod region on January 24, the defence ministry said.</p>
<p>The crash killed all 74 people onboard, including six crew members and three Russian servicemen, local authorities in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said.</p>
<p>Moscow said 65 Ukrainian prisoners were on the plane.</p>
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<p>The incident also led some Russian officials to publicly question the possibility of future prisoner swaps.</p>
<p>Ukrainian officials confirmed last week that a prisoner swap was due to happen that day but said it had been called off.</p>
<p>It said it has seen no evidence the plane was carrying prisoners.</p>
<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 207 Ukrainians were freed in Wednesday’s exchange.</p>
<p>There was no immediate explanation for the different figures.</p>
<p>“We remember each Ukrainian in captivity. Both warriors and civilians. We must bring all of them back. We are working on it,” Mr Zelensky wrote on X, formerly Twitter.</p>
<p>Among the Ukrainians released are members of the armed forces, national guard, border service and national police, said Andrii Yermak, head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office.</p>
<p>He said some of them were captured while defending Mariupol, Azovstal and Snake Island.</p>
<p>The Russian military said, without providing details or evidence, that the Russian prisoners of war “faced deadly danger in captivity” and will be flown to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation.</p>
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