Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar told a Ukrainian TV station that a deal was struck to exchange badly injured soldiers from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol for Russian POWs.
Malyar said that 53 wounded soldiers are being transported from Azovstal to Novoazovsk where they will receive immediate medical attention.
Another 211 Ukrainian fighters were accompanied by Russian forces from Azovstal to Olenivka in rebel-held Donetsk, where they will be part of the exchange for Russian POWs.
ABC News’ Tom Rivers has the details.