Russia launched a deadly aerial assault across Ukraine, targeting the capital with missiles and drones for a second night in a row, as the two sides carried out an exchange of hundreds of prisoners of war.

Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners on Sunday, the third and last part of a major exchange that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the more than three years of war.

Russia and Ukraine completed the exchange of 1000 prisoners each on Sunday, the Russian Defence Ministry and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, in the largest such swap since the war began three years ago.