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  • This Thursday, kyiv exchanged 215 prisoners, including many defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, for 55 Russian prisoners.

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This is the largest exchange of military prisoners that Russia and Ukraine have made since the start of the war at the end of February.

“We have managed to free 215 people,” Ukrainian presidential administration chief Andriy Yermak said on Wednesday evening.

kyiv notably recovered 188 "heroes" who defended the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, a symbol of resistance to the Russian invasion, and this southern city - including 108 members of the Azov regiment.

Russia has recovered 55 prisoners, including former MP Viktor Medvedchuk, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused of high treason in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily address.

Ten prisoners of war - including five British and two Americans - whose transfer from Russia to Saudi Arabia earlier in the day as part of an exchange between Moscow and Ukraine had been announced by Saudi diplomacy, are among of this exchange, he added.

sentence of the day

We can't let Putin off the hook."

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on the international community to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin to account for his invasion of Ukraine at a meeting of the Security Council.

According to Washington, Moscow has “ripped apart the international order”.

The number of the day

1.332.

This is the minimum number of Russians arrested after improvised demonstrations to contest the partial mobilization ordered by Vladimir Putin, in at least 38 cities in Russia.

The trend of the day

Vladimir Putin's announcement to mobilize part of the country's reservists caused a wave of panic in Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that reports of an exodus of Russians were "greatly exaggerated".

Still, according to the Google Trends tool, which tracks search trends on Google, the frequency of the request “leaving Russia” was multiplied by nearly 100 after the announcement of mobilization on Wednesday morning.

And flights from Russia, very limited and expensive since the adoption of Western sanctions in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, were sold out in the coming days for almost all destinations still available.

Even the son of the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, is accused of having refused to be mobilized in Ukraine, after the publication of a telephone conversation that has gone viral on the Internet.

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Germany is ready to welcome deserters from the Russian army "threatened with serious repression", declared the German Minister of the Interior in an interview published on Thursday.

The authorities have said that 300,000 reservists will be called up, but many Russians fear a much larger mobilization.

Which could cause an even greater exodus.

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