Ukraine FM says Russia offered thousands of POWs for captured North Koreans: sources

Russia has proposed exchanging thousands of Ukrainian detainees for two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine, Ukraine’s top diplomat told experts in Seoul, sources close to the matter confirmed Thursday.

If confirmed, the proposal could complicate Seoul’s efforts to bring the prisoners to South Korea.

Separate diplomatic sources familiar with the matter, however, expressed skepticism over whether Moscow would make such an offer.

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