Ukraine says captured Russian soldiers could be part of prisoner exchange

KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top military commander boasted Tuesday of continued success in Ukraine’s surprise incursion into western Russia, claiming further territorial gains and the capture of Russian forces whom Zelensky said could be exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The statements from Zelensky and Oleksandr Syrsky, made a day after Zelensky for the first time acknowledged the ongoing operations in Kursk, seemed to imply that the thrust into Russian territory was part of a strategy for future negotiations and not an indefinite occupation.

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