Updates on Ukraine: Prisoners, Diplomacy, and Bakhmut's Battle.

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Russia toughens military draft rules, bans conscripts from leaving the country and increases penalties for draftees who fail to report for service. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin is in Washington discussing aid oversight and war crimes investigations. Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his criticism of Russia's war in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a Latin America tour, visiting Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba. Ukrainian soldiers were released in a "big Easter POW swap." Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia banned grain imports from Ukraine.
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