Ukraine’s capital has came under a large-scale combined drone and missile attack, with explosions and machine gun fire heard throughout the city

KYIV: A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv on Saturday (May 24) wounded at least 15 people, even as Russia and Ukraine continued the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Moscow's invasion.

Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 307 of their service personnel on Saturday on the second day of a prisoner exchange that, when completed, is set to be the largest such swap in the three-year war between the two countries.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky early Saturday condemned Russia’s overnight strikes on several areas in Ukraine, including Kyiv, as the two sides began the first stages of a prisoner swap

Russia and Ukraine have completed the first phase of what is expected to be the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the war, with almost 800 people released on Friday.

Kyiv came under a combined drone and missile attack early on May 24, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said, describing explosions in the Ukrainian capital and saying that air defenses had been activated.

Russia and Ukraine have scheduled no further direct talks on ending their more than three-year war, a Kremlin spokesman said Thursday, almost a week after the first face-to-face engagement between the countries’ delegations since 2022 and days after U.

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