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Death toll mounts in Ukraine as Biden heads to Poland

A man flees with his belongings as fire engulfs a vehicle and building following artillery fire on the 30th day on the invasion of the Ukraine by Russian forces in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25, 2022.- Russian strikes targeting a medical facility in Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv on March 25, 2022, killing at least four civilians and wounding...

KHARKIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government said Friday that it had conducted its first prisoner exchange with Moscow during their month-long war, even as it accused enemy forces of forcibly sending people to Russia and reported at least 300 dead in a recent airstrike on a theater in Mariupol.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk in a message posted to Telegram, said the countries exchanged prisoners twice. Ukraine received 19 civilians and 10 soldiers and handed back 11 civilians — captured from a sunken ship near Odesa — and 10 soldiers to Russia.

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