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Ukraine and Russia have exchanged around 200 prisoners of war from each side.

Russia’s defence ministry said the swap involved 195 soldiers on each side – but President Zelenskyy said 207 Ukrainians were freed in Wednesday’s exchange.

There was no immediate explanation for the different figures.

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“We remember each Ukrainian in captivity. Both warriors and civilians. We must bring all of them back. We are working on it,” the Ukrainian president wrote on X.

The Russian military said, without providing details or evidence, the Russian prisoners of war “faced deadly danger in captivity” and will be flown to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation.

The exchange comes a week after Russia accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, who were going to be swapped for Russian counterparts.

Missiles fired from across the border brought down the plane in Russia’s Belgorod region on 24 January, the defence ministry said.

The crash killed all 74 people on board, including six crew members and three Russian servicemen, local authorities in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said.

Moscow said 65 Ukrainian prisoners were on the plane.

The incident also led some Russian officials to publicly question the possibility of future prisoner swaps.

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Ukrainian officials confirmed last week a prisoner swap was due to happen that day but said it had been called off.

It said it has seen no evidence the plane was carrying prisoners.

An Italian woman being bound in chains while appearing in a Hungarian court has sparked outrage in her home nation.

Ilaria Salis, an anti-fascist activist, was arrested in Budapest last year on suspicion of being involved in attacks against participants in Hungary’s Day of Honour commemorations.

Each year on 11 February scores of neo-Nazis honour the failed escape attempt by Nazi forces and Hungarian soldiers out of Budapest during the Red Army’s siege of the city in 1945.

It also drums up support of vehement anti-fascist demonstrators.

Salis was seen in court being led by a guard with a chain in hand.

She was also handcuffed and her legs shackled limiting her movement, in what has been described as “humiliating conditions” by the Italian government.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke to her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban about Salis’s detention, a local news site reported.

The two leaders are on good terms, though this is a delicate situation for the far-right-led government of Ms Meloni.

The Italian foreign ministry called on the Hungarian deputy ambassador to protest after Salis appeared in court earlier in the week.

The ministry cited European and international law calling for the need to respect the dignity of prisoners “including the way in which defendants are transferred to court and the guarantees of a fair trial”.

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It also requested Salis be placed under house arrest instead of being held in prison before her trial – the conditions of which made the front page in Italian newspapers following reports she was bound by the neck in a cell with mice and cockroaches.

The ministry demanded Salis’s lawyers have access to a video of the alleged incidents so a defence could be established.

Senate president Ignazio La Russa, who is a member of Ms Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, said Italian law “prohibits inmates from being exhibited with handcuffs and in conditions of humiliation, whereas this isn’t the case in Hungary”.

If Salis is convicted, prosecutors have requested 11 years in prison for her.

Hungarian prisons are reportedly short of the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights, with regards to detention conditions and overcrowding.