Russia has launched its largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the beginning of the war, killing 12 and injuring many. The assault took place during a major prisoner exchange.
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00:00Explosions rock the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, destroying apartment blocks and reducing city
00:09blocks to rubble. Russian forces fired 367 drones and missiles across the country overnight on
00:15Sunday, leaving 12 dead and dozens more injured. It's the largest aerial assault since Russia began
00:22its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We woke up from the sound of an explosion.
00:28I immediately grabbed my child, who's 20 months old. I covered it in a blanket and protected it.
00:35Then there was another explosion and a huge flash. I heard how everything was turned upside down.
00:42And then there was this noise stuck in my head and ears.
00:46Just hours after the attack, Russia and Ukraine both say they released more than 300 imprisoned
00:52soldiers, part of a major exchange that began on Friday. Altogether, 1,000 people were freed.
00:58The largest number since the start of the war. While it marks a rare moment of cooperation
01:04between the two countries, it's not slowed down the fighting, which continues along the roughly
01:101,000-kilometer front line, as deep strikes on both sides kill tens of thousands of troops.
01:15Russia!
01:16Base!
01:16Sicherheit!
01:17Theски!
01:18Show左23!
01:18We have God!
01:19eriura person
01:22And There are a lot of reactions to this
01:25for us.
01:26the United States, the reaction to Europe, the reaction to all the world who wants to finish the war.
01:33Putin has refused to stop the war not once again.
01:39This does not give him anything, except that every day he takes life.
01:45Ukraine and his allies have been urging Moscow to agree to a 30-day ceasefire as a first step towards ending the three-year war.
01:53But their efforts suffered a blow after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to impose new sanctions on Moscow
01:59for rejecting an immediate truce pushed by Kyiv.
02:02I'll give you an update. I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.
02:05He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.
02:09I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him,
02:12but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all, okay?
02:19Though Trump raising the possibility of imposing more sanctions in response to Russia's most recent attack,
02:25both sides remain in a deadly stalemate.
02:28With diplomacy stalling and Ukraine's defenses stretched thin,
02:32hopes for an end to the war may still be far off.
02:36Liang Lian and Chelsea Wu for Taiwan Plus.