Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners and the fight rages for control of Advivka. Russia and Ukraine announced a prisoner exchange, in which about 200 prisoners of war from both sides returned.
The exchange took place while mutual bombardment and battles continued on several fronts. Ukraine warned its allies yesterday, Wednesday, that it was facing a serious shortage of artillery shells, and said that Russia was deploying three times the Ukrainian firepower on the front lines every day. Russian sources reported that the Crimean Peninsula was subjected to intense Ukrainian bombing yesterday.