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Russia and Ukraine carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Friday, each side bringing home 95 prisoners in an agreement in which the United Arab Emirates acted as mediator. Russia 's Defense Ministry, in a post on the Telegram messaging app, said the returning Russia n service members were undergoing medical checks in Belarus, one of Russia 's closest allies in the more than 2-1/2-year-old war.
The body coordinating the affairs of prisoners of war said 48 of the returnees had been handed sentences by the Russian judicial system.Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament's commissioner for human rights, said the release was the 58th since the beginning of the war and brought to 3,767 the total number of prisoners returned home.
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