Ukraine is working with Russia to resume prisoner exchanges that could bring home 1,2000 Ukrainian prisoners, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.

"We are working to ensure another start to negotiations, so that after all there is a prospect to end this war," he wrote on X . "We are also counting on the resumption of POW exchanges – many meetings, negotiations, and calls are currently taking place to ensure this."

Rustem Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, said Saturday he held consultations mediated by Turkey and the United Arab Emirates on resuming exchanges.

He said the parties agreed to activate prisoner exchange agreements brokered in Istanbul to release 1,200 Ukrainians. Moscow did not immediately comment.

The Istanbul agreements r

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