Russia initiated negotiations on the exchange of prisoners for the first time
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Just a moment...
https://m.gazeta.ua/articles/politics/_rosiya-vpershe-iniciyuvala-peregovori-pro-obmin-polonenimi/1190477
https://m.gazeta.ua/articles/politics/_rosiya-vpershe-iniciyuvala-peregovori-pro-obmin-polonenimi/1190477
Or desperate to keep people in St Petersburg and Moscow from freaking out cause their kids are now POWs
That would match what I've heard it suggested that the POWs taking in Kursk were conscripts (compulsory military service usually of young people), instead of the POWs we've had to-date which were contract soldiers (volunteers).