Overview

• Ukraine conducted its fourth prisoner-of-war exchange with Russia on June 14 under Istanbul agreements that include further swaps scheduled for next week.
• The latest repatriation brought 1,200 more bodies from Russia, raising the total to 4,012 remains returned to Ukraine since early June.
• Most of the freed prisoners are officers who had been held in Russian custody since 2022, many captured during the defense of Mariupol.
• Russian forces have massed roughly 53,000 troops in Sumy, where Kyiv’s defenders have halted advances and recaptured villages such as Andriivka near the border.
• At the G7 summit in Canada, Ukraine will press allies to implement new sanctions, including a proposed cut to Russia’s oil price cap.