Ukraine and Russia exchanged another group of ill and severely wounded servicemen on Thursday, officials from both countries said. All of the Ukrainian troops need treatment, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a message on the Telegram messaging app that did not go into details on the numbers involved.

Ukrainian troops from the Armed Forces, National Guard, and State Border Guard Service have returned home, all of whom require medical treatment, Zelenskyy said. “This is already the second stage of returning severely wounded and seriously ill warriors.