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Rus­sia and Ukraine ex­changed hun­dreds more pris­on­ers Sat­ur­day as part of a ma­jor swap that amount­ed to a rare mo­ment of co­op­er­a­tion in oth­er­wise failed ef­forts to reach a cease­fire. The ex­change came hours af­ter Kyiv came un­der a large-scale Russ­ian drone and mis­sile at­tack that left at least 15 peo­ple in­jured.

Ukraine’s Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy and Rus­sia’s de­fense min­istry said each side brought home 307 more sol­diers on Sat­ur­day, a day af­ter each re­leased a to­tal of 390 com­bat­ants and civil­ians. Fur­ther re­leas­es ex­pect­ed over the week­end are set to make the swap the largest in more than three years of war.

“We ex­pect more to come to­mor­row,” Ze­len­skyy said on his of­fi­cial Telegram chan­nel. Rus­sia’s de­fense min­istry al­so said it ex­pect­ed the ex­change to be con­tin­ued, though it did not give de­tails.