Death toll mounts in Ukraine as Biden heads to Poland
by Marcus Yam, Patrick J. McDonnell and Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times
Mar 25, 2022
3 minutes
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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