Ukraine-Russia agree to new prisoner swap but talks fail to yield ceasefire

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the NATO summit in Vilnius on Monday, said Russia and Kyiv have agreed to free more prisoners of war.

The agreement emerged at the second round of direct peace talks which took place in the Turkish city of Istanbul, where the two sides met for just over an hour.

They agreed to swap 6,000 bodies of soldiers killed in action and an “all for all’ exchange of seriously wounded and sick…