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Ukraine controls over 1,250 square kilometres of Russia’s territory, including 92 settlements, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a meeting on Monday with heads of the country’s foreign diplomatic mission. Zelenskyy also said that Ukraine has captured the largest number of Russian prisoners in a single operation, and that the operation marks Ukraine’s biggest effort to free Ukrainians from Russian captivity. He acknowledged last week that the captured Russian prisoners could be part of a prisoner exchange. “Our active defensive actions across the border as well as Putin’s inabilit…