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London – Russia started a large drone and rocket attack on Kyiv in the early Saturday, injured six and harmful buildings all over the city, since the next stage of a prisoner base between Ukraine and Russia is scheduled for today.
Russia fired 14 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic rockets and 250 Shahed drones, which mainly aims at Kyiv. The Ukraine Air Force said it shot down six rockets and 245 drones.
At least 17 people were injured in Kyiv, with residential buildings and infrastructures being damaged in several districts.
Elsewhere, the Russian fire killed two people in the Kherson region last day and injured 13, which damaged the critical and social infrastructure as well as three residential buildings and 12 private houses. The Russian armed forces also killed four more on Friday in the Donetsk region.
In Russia, the Ukrainian drone attacks three people overnight and on Saturday morning and aimed at industrial centers in the Lipetsk and Tula regions. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that 94 drones were depressed in six regions.
In the meantime, the Ukrainian defense information (HUR) has carried out more than 150 Ukrainian soldiers about the Ukrainian soldiers in February 2022, in which they were described as part of a conscious campaign of the Moscow leadership.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for stronger sanctions against Russia and said Moscow’s goal was to extend the war by rejecting the proposals for the armistice.
The exchange was prepared after bilateral peace talks in Istanbul last week.
In this handout picture, which was published on May 23, 2025, Ukrainian prisoners of war can be seen after an exchange, which was attacked in an unknown place in Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential press service via Reuters
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that Russia would be handed over a draft after completing the swap, which “represents the conditions for a sustainable, long -term and comprehensive comparison agreement,” said the Russian state media.
The Ukrainian Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov said on Friday that Ukraine was obliged to do an armistice and described the exchange as the “first stage”.
“We have reached 1,000 for 1,000. After that, it is successful, as I said, first the exchange, the second the ceasefire,” he said.
Such stock exchanges have taken place in the entire 3-year invasion of Russia, although the swap-after final bisher will be by far the largest. The prisoners’ stock exchanges are one of the few areas in which Moscow and Kyiv were able to achieve an agreement during the conflict.