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The exchange of prisoners necessarily involved compromises from all parties. However, interpreting the action as an indication of Putin鈥檚 reckoning with the reality of his disastrous war requires a stretch of wishful political thinking. More probable is his intention to escalate the 鈥渉ybrid war鈥� against the West by signaling to various operatives and 鈥渟leeper agents鈥� that risks of failure are low because the pool of Western and Russian hostages for future exchanges remains vast (see , April 23). Zelenskyy can count on new Russian transgressions of the norms of international behavior for boosting the appeal of his proposal for a new peace summit, but prospects for real peace will still require difficult collective work to defeat Putin鈥檚 aggression.聽