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Ukraine's army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi is expected be dismissed from his post by the end of the week, CNN reported Wednesday.

Ukraine’s army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi is expected be dismissed from his post by the end of the week, CNN reported Wednesday.

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has confirmed the return of 207 Ukrainian prisoners of war from Russia in a prisoner swap between Kyiv and Moscow on Wednesday. President Zelensky, who made the confirmation in a post on X (formerly Twitter) with some photos of the returnees, said, “Our people are back. 207 of them. We return them home no matter what. “We remember each Ukrainian in captivity. Both warriors and civilians. We must bring all of them back. We are working on it.

Russia and Ukraine traded hundreds of prisoners of war on Wednesday, just a week after Moscow said Kyiv had shot down a plane carrying captured Ukrainian soldiers to an exchange.

ALBAWABA - Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war (POWs)on Wednesday, less than a week after Moscow claimed Kyiv shot down a plane ca

Russia exchanged 207 Ukrainians for 195 Russian soldiers in a prisoner swap with Ukraine on Wednesday, the first since last week's disastrous transport crash.

It comes a week after Russia accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commenting on the large exchange of prisoners of war with Russia, said that the more Ukraine takes Russian prisoners, the more effective the negotiations in Russia on their exchanges will be.

The past month has not been kind to Russia's forces in occupied Crimea. In a span of weeks, a ship, a submarine, and multiple air defense systems were destroyed. Ukraine said these targets included Russia's S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, optimistically named the Triumph.

Theinformation agency «Biatlon» reports that the Ukrainian biathlete Darya Blashko won the "Frassinoro Summer Biathlon Festival", which was held in Italy. Dorothea Vierer (Italy) took second place, and ukrainian Alla Gilenko, who is currently defending the colors of the Republic of Moldova, took third place.