Russia and Ukraine held another prisoner swap on Saturday, with each side freeing 103 people. Outgoing NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) that NATO could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent a Russian invasion in 2022. Here are the most important developments from Ukraine in the past 24 hours.
> Russia and Ukraine carried out another prisoner exchange on Saturday, in which each side released 103 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported, quoted by the Interfax news agency. 103 defenders managed to be freed from Russian captivity, the Ukrainian president said Volodymyr Zelensky.
> NATO could have done more to arm Ukraine to try to prevent a Russian invasion in 2022, the alliance's outgoing secretary general said Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with the German “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” (“FAS”). “Now we are supplying military equipment for war – then we could supply military equipment to prevent war,” Stoltenberg said.
> The Russian army attacked Ukraine on the night of Friday into Saturday with more than 70 Shahed combat drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday morning. He added that most of the drones were shot down.
> European governments should suspend social benefits for Ukrainian men of military age living in their countries, said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Radoslaw Sikorski in Kiev. It would help Ukraine draft more troops to fight Russian forces, Reuters reports.
> One person was killed and seven were injured in a Russian attack on an energy facility in the Sumy region in northern Ukraine near the border with Russia, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said on Saturday. The victims were employees of the facility.
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