Russia and Ukraine said Tuesday they had exchanged captured soldiers, the second stage of an agreement struck at peace talks last week for each side to free more than 1,000 prisoners. Ukrainian ...

The U.S. and Russia conducted a major prisoner swap, the largest since the Cold War, on August 1, 2024. The exchange freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan ...

Ukraine has secured the return of 84 soldiers and civilians from Russian captivity in a new prisoner swap with Moscow, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Aug. 14. The news follows a series of ...

RUSSIA -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is open to a prisoner swap for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who's been detained for over 300 days in the country. In an ...

Ukrainian prisoners of war were released from Russian custody Thursday in a prisoner swap. Here, some of them posed for a photo with Ukrainian flags draped around them. Photo courtesy of Ukrainian ...

The bodies of 1,212 Ukrainian soldiers have been returned from Russia, Kyiv says, as part of a prisoner exchange agreement between the warring countries. In return Russia received 27 bodies, Moscow's ...

Update: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released Thursday by Russia as part of a major, multi-nation swap of two dozen prisoners. Our original ...

Basketball star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan should hopefully be released from Russia as part of a "two-for-two" prisoner swap, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said ...