{"id":1266891,"date":"2025-07-23T22:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-and-russia-exchanged-prisoners-who-was-returned\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:56:37","slug":"ukraine-and-russia-exchanged-prisoners-who-was-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-and-russia-exchanged-prisoners-who-was-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners: who was returned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ninth stage of the exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place. Military personnel who had been in captivity for more than 3 years returned to their homeland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/15256\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was announced by<\/a> the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Today, the ninth stage of the exchange, agreed upon in Istanbul, took place. Seriously ill and seriously injured defenders are returning home. We can already talk about the details &#8211; over all stages of the latest Istanbul agreements, we managed to return more than 1,000 of our people,&#8221; Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5190504197131465033.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5190815814188661621.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5190815814188661623.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"shortcode-wide-image\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5190874015290489734.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption>Photo: Zelensky\/Telegram<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1266891-1\" width=\"848\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/obmin_video_1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/obmin_video_1.mp4\">https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/obmin_video_1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p> He added that the soldiers returning from captivity defended Ukraine on various fronts. A significant number had been in captivity for over three years.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ninth stage of the exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place. Military personnel who had been in captivity for more than 3 years returned to their homeland. This was announced by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. &#8220;Today, the ninth stage of the exchange, agreed upon in Istanbul, took place. Seriously ill and seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1266886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76878],"class_list":["post-1266891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}