Russia is actively conducting a discrediting operation against the Ukrainian government, trying to undermine public confidence in the government and to present Ukraine as a state that allegedly refuses to negotiate the exchange of prisoners of war.

Russia has allegedly declared its readiness to exchange 630 Ukrainian prisoners of war. However, this may be a provocation and propaganda, states Andrii Yusov, Deputy Head of the Coordination Staff for Prisoner of War Affairs,

Kyiv is ready to bring back all Ukrainians from Russian captivity, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Dec. 2, denying the claims of his Russian counterpart Tatyana Moskalkova. Lubinets's response came after Moskalkova published alleged lists of 600 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Russia,