MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has returned 246 servicemen from Ukrainian captivity in exchange for 246 Ukrainian prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. 

"As a result of the negotiation process, 246 Russian soldiers were returned from the territory, controlled by the Kiev regime. In return, 246 POWs from the Ukrainian armed forces were handed over [to Kiev]," the ministry said in a statement.

As a gesture of goodwill Russia also handed 31 wounded POWs over to Ukraine in exchange for 15 Russian soldiers, who needed urgent assistance, the ministry said. 

The ministry added that during the exchange, humanitarian mediation efforts had been provided by the United Arab Emirates.

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MOSCOW(Sputnik) - Russia's Tsentr group of forces has eliminated up to 350 Ukrainian soldiers over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"The enemy has lost up to 350 servicepeople, six armored vehicles, including the HMMWV and the US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, one German-made Marder armored personnel carrier and a French-made VAB armored personnel carrier. Five motor vehicles, two field artillery guns and a US-made AN/TPQ-48 station of counter-battery warfare," the statement read.

Russia's Yug group of forces has eliminated over 365 Ukrainian soldiers, two tanks, eight armored fighting vehicles, one M113 armored personnel carrier and a US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher and two ammunition depots over the past day.

Russia’s Zapad group of forces has eliminated up to 265 Ukrainian servicepeople, while Vostok group of forces moved deeper behind enemy lines, with Ukraine losing over 130 soldiers over the past day, the statement read.

Kiev lost up to 80 soldiers in clashes with Russia's Dnepr battle group in the past day, the ministry said in a statement.

Russia’s Sever (North) group of forces has eliminated up to 45 Ukrainian soldiers over the past 24 hours, the ministry said.

Ukraine continues conducting attacks on the Russian energy infrastructure and has conducted 10 attacks over the past 24 hours in Russia's Belgorod, Bryansk, Kherson Regions and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"The Kiev regime continues its unilateral attacks against the Russian energy infrastructure. In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have attacked Russian energy facilities 10 times," the ministry said in a statement.

In the Belgorod Region, the attack of the Ukrainian drone has damaged the high-voltage line Belgorod - Rudnik, which led to its outage. The shelling of the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Shebekinsky district has damaged the aboveground steel distribution pipeline, the ministry said.

A high-voltage line has gone down in Russia's Bryansk Region as a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces, the ministry added.

The Ilyich - Nasosnaya high-voltage line in the DPR went down as a result of the attack of the Ukrainian military during daytime on April 18, the ministry also said.

The Ukrainian armed forces conducted artillery shelling on the Kakhovskaya power substation of the Rosseti branch – the Tavrichesky enterprise of main electric networks in the Kherson Region, the ministry said.

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1155 Yuckrainian SOLDIERS ELIMINITATED ON GOOD FRIDAY... THE KIEV REGIME LOSES 8,000 SOLDIERS ON AVERAGE PER WEEK... THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE FOR THE WEST....

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

The Russian military has been targeted more than 1,300 times by Ukrainian forces in the less than 24 hours since the declaration of an Easter truce by both sides, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that the pause in hostilities would be in effect from 6:00pm Moscow time on Saturday, and last until midnight on Monday. He instructed the country’s military to stay on high alert and be ready “to respond to any violations or provocations.” Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky answered a few hours later that Kiev’s forces “will act in a reciprocal way.”

The Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that “despite the announcement of the Easter truce,”Ukrainian forces attempted to assault the positions of the Russian military in the areas of the settlements of Sukhaya Balka and Bogatyr in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic overnight. The attacks were repelled, it added.

Kiev’s troops also used 48 plane-type UAVs against the Russian military, including one in Crimea, the statement read. 

“The Ukrainian units fired 444 times from cannons and mortars at the positions of our troops, [and] carried out 900 strikes with quadcopter drones,” the ministry said.

There were 12 artillery attacks, 33 UAV strikes, and seven munition drops in the border areas of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions in western Russia, which resulted in “civilian casualties and injuries, as well as damage to civilian facilities,” according to the statement.

“In accordance with the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces [President Vladimir Putin], all [Russian military] groupings in the area of the special military operation strictly observed the ceasefire regime… and remained at previously occupied lines and positions,” the ministry said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large overseeing investigations of war crimes by Kiev, Rodion Miroshnik, said earlier in the day that Ukraine used artillery and drones to attack residential areas in several cities and towns in Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic as well as in Kherson Region. More reports of violations of the Easter ceasefire by Ukraine have been coming in, he added.

During their phone call on March 18, Putin accepted his US counterpart Donald Trump’s proposal to introduce a 30-day pause on targeting energy facilities. Zelensky also said at the time that his country would abide by the truce. However, the Russian Defense Ministry reported daily violations by Ukraine of the partial ceasefire, which expired last week.

The breaches of the Easter truce suggest that Kiev is unable to stick to any pause in the fighting, Miroshnik said during appearances on Soloviev LIVE TV on Sunday.

“I do not remember a single ceasefire that would be successful and long-term, so I do not yet see any serious grounds to say that Ukraine is capable of doing this [abide by a truce],” the diplomat stressed.

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