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- Russia has begun implementing plans to call up reservists to fight in Ukrane after suffering setbacks there.
- President Vladimir putin's order to mobilise 300,000 more Russians with military exprience sparked protests on Wednesday.
- More than 1,000 anti-mobilisation protesters are reported to have been arrested.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry peskov has not denied media reports that some protestes were given draft papers.
- Meanwhile the BBC has spoken to young men fleeing over the border into Georgia-one of the few remaining countries Russians can get to without a visa.
- And Ukraine is celebrating a prisoners exchange which saw more than 200 prisoners of war released by Russia.
- They include more than 100 members of the Azov battalion,hailed as heroes for mounting resistance at a steelwork in Mariupol.
- Five British nationals also freed have arrived back in the UK.