{"id":1353727,"date":"2026-02-04T21:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-announced-a-prisoner-exchange-in-the-near-future\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:11:23","slug":"zelenskyy-announced-a-prisoner-exchange-in-the-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-announced-a-prisoner-exchange-in-the-near-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy announced a prisoner exchange in the near future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine and Russia plan to exchange prisoners of war in the near future.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/17850\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in a video message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Zelensky, after a trilateral meeting and contacts with the American team in Abu Dhabi, he received reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;There will be a significant step: we expect an exchange of prisoners of war in the near future. We need to return the prisoners home,&#8221; the president emphasized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zelensky noted that Ukraine has a clear position &#8211; the war must be ended, Russia must be ready for this, and foreign partners must provide real security guarantees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Zelensky previously noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-pro-obmin-polonenymy-rosiiany-ne-zatsikavleni\/\">the Russians are not interested in exchanging people<\/a> because they do not see any benefit for themselves in this.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on January 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/v-ukrainu-povernuly-1000-til-zahyblykh-voiniv\/\">1,000 bodies of the dead were returned to Ukraine<\/a> , which, according to the Russian side, belong to Ukrainian defenders.<\/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>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine and Russia plan to exchange prisoners of war in the near future. He said this in a video message. According to Zelensky, after a trilateral meeting and contacts with the American team in Abu Dhabi, he received reports. &#8220;There will be a significant step: we expect an exchange of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1353734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1353727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353727","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=1353727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}