Ukraine and Russia agree to a prisoner swap — but made little headway beyond that

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed Monday’s second round of direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia as “very, very momentous”.

He confirmed that both sides had agreed to exchange over a thousand prisoners of war along with a “highly significant number” of bodies of soldiers killed in action.

Monday’s discussion lasted only slightly more than an hour and produced no major progress toward ending the 3-year-old war,…