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Russia initiated negotiations on the exchange of prisoners for the first time (m.gazeta.ua)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 weeks ago

They’re desparate for cannon fodder?

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

Or desperate to keep people in St Petersburg and Moscow from freaking out cause their kids are now POWs

[-] Kaavi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

The lucky ones are pow, the not so lucky ones are dead. #SupportingTakingTheWarHomeToRussia

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That would match what I've heard it suggested that the POWs taking in Kursk were conscripts (compulsory military service usually of young people), instead of the POWs we've had to-date which were contract soldiers (volunteers).

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