The Ukrainian agency that deals with prisoner exchanges said late Friday that Russian officials had “with great delay” provided it with a list of the 65 Ukrainians who Moscow said had died in the Wednesday plane crash in Russia's Belgorod region.
Kyiv has not outright denied Moscow’s claims that it shot down a military plane, but it has raised questions about whether the prisoners were actually on board.
A military transport plane that Russia said was carrying 74 people, including 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war to be swapped, crashed Wednesday in a border region near Ukraine.
Russia has halted its participation in the Black Sea grain export deal, the Kremlin said on Monday. The deal, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey a year ago, aimed to alleviate a global food crisis by allowing Ukrainian grain shipments blocked by the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be safely exported. Wheat futures rose sharply following the news, with the Chicago Board of Trade's most active wheat contract up almost 3% after earlier rising over 4%.