{"id":1295006,"date":"2025-09-20T16:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-announced-a-new-prisoner-exchange-how-many-people-are-planned-to-be-returned\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:01:44","slug":"zelensky-announced-a-new-prisoner-exchange-how-many-people-are-planned-to-be-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-announced-a-new-prisoner-exchange-how-many-people-are-planned-to-be-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky announced a new prisoner exchange: how many people are planned to be returned"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heads of the Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams are in constant contact and are preparing a new large-scale prisoner exchange.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a conversation with journalists,<\/span> Suspilne reports<\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRusty (Umerov \u2014 ed.) talked about the exchange with Medinsky \u2013 they are in contact. We want to take 1,000 people,\u201d he assured.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Zelensky, both sides are currently working on lists of prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, the president spoke about a bilateral meeting with Russia, emphasizing that Ukraine could meet “even tomorrow.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut we need a result. We have read all their memorandums, we know them well. And they have read and studied ours very well. They know what they want, and we know what we want. We can simply meet with them without any forward movement \u2013 and it is precisely such empty meetings that are beneficial to them,\u201d Zelensky added.<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted that the Russian side has repeatedly violated the agreements reached after the meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe meet, there is an agreement on the exchange, and besides the exchange, there is an agreement on the format in which the leaders will meet to try to agree on the end of the war, on one or another stage. But we met and agreed only on the exchange. They came back and said: \u201cLet’s go ahead with the exchange, civilians… after the civilians there will be a call with Rustem, we will discuss further\u201d. They had a call. Now they say: \u201cwe probably need to do something else \u2013 technical meetings\u201d. That is, they are delaying everything\u201d, he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ukraine will communicate with US President Donald Trump, and he will talk to China.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone will do their bit to ensure that the meeting at the leadership level takes place,\u201d the president is convinced.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a reminder, on August 24, Ukraine and Russia held another prisoner exchange<\/a> , in particular, they managed to return military personnel and civilians home.<\/p>\n

As is known, on August 14 , another 84 people were returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity<\/a> . These are military and civilians, almost all of whom need medical assistance.<\/p>\n

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The heads of the Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams are in constant contact and are preparing a new large-scale prisoner exchange. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a conversation with journalists, Suspilne reports . \u201cRusty (Umerov \u2014 ed.) talked about the exchange with Medinsky \u2013 they are in contact. We want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1245692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1295006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295006","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}