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Russia and Ukraine each handed over 270 people in a prisoner exchange, according to reporting by POLITICO Europe and Tagesschau.
The exchange was described by POLITICO Europe as the third stage of the swap. Ukraine thanked the United States and the United Arab Emirates for facilitating that stage, POLITICO Europe reported.
Tagesschau reported that the exchange formed part of an agreement planned months earlier. It also said that some of the released Ukrainian soldiers had previously been presumed dead.
The supplied reports were published on October 23, 2026, but do not explicitly establish that the exchange itself took place on that date, according to the evidence available for this report.