Russia and Ukraine ended the greatest exchange of prisoners on Sunday that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in the failed efforts to reach a high fire in more than Three years of war.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that each side brought 303 more soldiers to home after each released a Total of 307 fighters and civilians on Saturday and 390 on Friday.
The Ukrainian president, Volodyymyr Zenskyy, confirmed the exchange, writing on social networks that “303 Ukrainian defenders are at home.” He pointed out that the troops returning were members of the “Armed Forces, the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service and the State Special Transport Service.”
In Speak hero in Türkiye earlier this month -The first time the two parties with face to face for peace from the large-scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine in February 2022-Kyiv and Moscow agree to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war and civilians arrested each. However, conversations failed to produce fire between countries at war.
As such, Russia has continued its offensive in Ukraine, launching multiple attacks of drones and missiles amid the exchange of prisoners.
A few hours before Sunday exchange, the capital of Ukraine and other regions were seen under a massive attack of Russian drones and missiles that killed at least 12 people and wounded boxes.
The onslaught scale was impressive Russia hit Ukraine with 367 drones and missiles, the largest war attack for more than a year, according to Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukraine Air Force.
In total, Russia used 69 missiles of various types and 298 drones, including Shahed drones designed by Iran, told Associated Press.
There were no immediate comments from Moscow about the strikes.
The president of the United States, Trump, told journalists on Sunday that he would consider hitting Russia with more sanctions after attacks.
“I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing many people and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” Trump said. “He has known him for a long time. Always God with him, but he is sending rockets to the cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all. Okay, we are in the midst of speaking, and he is shooting rockets to Alles. I do not. I do not. I am not. I do not.
Later on Sunday night, Mr. Trump wrote on social networks: “I have always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin in Russia, but something has happened to him. He has become absolutely crazy!”
Trump said Putin is “killing needles to many people,” noting that “missiles and drones are being shot at the cities of Ukraine, without any reason.”
Trump warned that if Putin wants to conquer all Ukraine, “he will lead to the fall of Russia!” But Trump expressed his frustration with Ukrainian President Volodyyyr Zenskyy too, saying he is “doing his country without favoring speaking as he does.”
“Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it and it is better to stop,” Trump wrote on social networks.
Zenskyy said that Russian missiles and drones hit more than 30 cities and towns and urged Western partners to increase sanctions to Russia, a long -standing demand for the Ukrainian leader, but one that, despite the warnings to Moscow, not the teter of the stop.
“BeSe were deliberate Strikes on Ordinary Cities,” Zenskyy posted on social media, Adding that Sunday targets included kyiv, zhytomyr, khmelnytskyi, ternopil, chernihiv, sum, odesava, dnipo, dnipo, dnipo, dnipo, dnipa, dnip Dnipa, Dnipa, Dnipa, Dnipa ,, dnipo ,, dnipo ,, dnipo ,, dnipo ,, dnipo ,, dnipo.
“Without a really strong pressure on Russian leadership, this brutality cannot be stopped. Sanctions will certainly help,” Zenskyy said. “Determination matters now: the determination of the United States, European countries and everyone who is around the world looking for peace.”
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said its air defenses knocked down 110 Ukrainian drones during the night.
Leaving aside the scale of the use of air weapons by Russia, attacks in the last 48 hours have among the most intense strikes of Ukraine since the invasion of February 2022.
Meanwhile, the battles have continued along the front line of approximately 620 miles, where tens of thousands or soldiers have died to the bones, and Neith Country has yielded in its strong strikes.
The Russian Ministry of Defense cited Yaroslav Yakimkin of the “Norte” group of Russian forces saying on Sunday that Ukrainian troops have pushed back from the border in the Kursk region, which the Russian president visited days.
“The troops continue to progress every day,” said Yakimkin, adding that the Russian forces have marine and Loknyya tasks in the region of the northeast sum of Ukraine, which limits with Kursk, during the past week, advanced in the Jarkivan around the Loykans.