Ukraine and Russia are ready for the greatest prisoner -wap, but details scarce

Russia and Ukraine would participate in a large prison change on Friday, described as the largest since the start of the entire Russian invasion in 2022.

Civil servants from both countries agree to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war, during other people in fruitless Peace negotiations in Istanbul A week ago.

US President Donald Trump previously placed his congratulations on his social social platform, and claimed that the Swap was complete and that “this could lead to something big ???”.

However, there was no confirmation from both sides and Ukrainian military sources, only news agencies told that the process was underway.

Impromising reports suggested that the exchange could take place over the Ukrainian border in three days with white -Russia.

The SWAP was agreed in Turkey a week ago, when delegations at a low level from Ukraine and Russia came eye to eye for the first time since March 2022, although the meeting took only two hours and did not succeed in making any progress in the direction of a cease-fire.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that there would be a second round of conversations if Moscow would hand over a “memorandum” to the Ukrainian side.

Trump said earlier this week that Russia and Ukraine would “immediately” negotiate a ceasefire and an end to the war, after a two-hour call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Since then, Putin’s Ukrainian counterpart VolodyMyr Zensky has accused him of “trying to buy time” To continue the war.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has supported a suggestion of Trump That the Vatican could mediate about conversations about negotiating a ceasefish -but Lavrov said that that was “not a very realistic option”.

The Russian Foreign Minister repeated an unfounded claim that Zensky was not a legitimate leader and suggested that new elections should be held before a potentially future peace agreement is signed.

Asked if Russia was ready to sign a deal, Lavrov said: “First we must have a deal. And when it has been agreed, we will decide. But, as President Putin has often said, President Zensky has no legitimacy.”

He said that after an agreement was ready, Russia would “see who of those in power in Ukraine has legitimacy.”

“The most important task is now to draw up a peace agreement that will be reliable and to offer a long-term, stable and honest peace without creating security threats for everyone. In our case we are working on Russia.”