Moscow's defence ministry said each side freed 150 prisoners of war in a swap on Monday, although Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 189 of Kyiv's soldiers had been brought home.
Russia and Ukraine swap at least 300 prisoners of war Russia and Ukraine have conducted a much-anticipated prisoner swap just ahead of the new year.
Pictures shared by Mr Zelenskyy showed dozens of men sitting in a bus, some of them wrapped in Ukraine's national blue and yellow flags.
The Russian captives were released on Belarusian territory and are being transferred to Russia, the defence ministry said.
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