Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday he backed Ukraine's calls for robust security guarantees as part of any peace deal, saying Canada would not rule out sending troops under such a framework.

According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the defense ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Lithuania, and Latvia, as well as the U.K. Minister for Veterans Affairs, are also in Ukraine for Independence Day.

Kyiv confirmed the swap but not the number of people returned, nor the claim from Russia that eight of the returnees were civilians "detained" from the Kursk border region. Two of the high-profile Ukrainian prisoners returned on Sunday were journalist Dmytro Khyliuk,