{"id":1366267,"date":"2026-03-06T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/another-300-ukrainian-soldiers-returned-from-russian-captivity\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:04:06","slug":"another-300-ukrainian-soldiers-returned-from-russian-captivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/another-300-ukrainian-soldiers-returned-from-russian-captivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 300 Ukrainian soldiers returned from Russian captivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the return of 300 Ukrainian servicemen and 2 civilians from Russian captivity. Most of the released defenders had been in captivity for over a year, some since 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> He wrote about this in <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/V_Zelenskiy_official\/18206\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to Zelensky, among those released are servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, and the State Border Service of Ukraine. Privates, sergeants, and officers returned home. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1366238 \" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115430_y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115430_y.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115430_y-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115430_y-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115430_y-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115430_y-650x364.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The released soldiers defended Ukraine on various fronts, including:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Donetsk;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Luhansk;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Kharkiv;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Zaporizhia;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Kherson;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> in Mariupol. <\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1366241 \" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115429_y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115429_y.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115429_y-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115429_y-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115429_y-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115429_y-650x364.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The President noted that most of the military had been in Russian captivity for over a year, and some of them had been since 2022.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Another 300 Ukrainian defenders are returning home from Russian captivity. We also managed to return 2 Ukrainian civilians today,&#8221; Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1366244 \" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115432_y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115432_y.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115432_y-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115432_y-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115432_y-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115432_y-650x364.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> He also thanked the Ukrainian military, who ensure the replenishment of the exchange fund for the return of prisoners.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThank you to all our soldiers who ensure this result, replenishing the exchange fund for Ukraine. Thank you to the entire team who worked for this result,\u201d the president said. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1366247 \" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115435_y.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115435_y.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115435_y-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115435_y-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115435_y-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/photo_5285018311148115435_y-650x364.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Zelenskyy separately thanked the United States for mediating the exchange process.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I am grateful to the United States for its mediation. It is important that the agreements worked. We remember each and every one and we must definitely return all our people,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"1070\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-ta-rf-provely-obmin-200-na-200\/\">Ukraine and the Russian Federation conducted another round of prisoner exchange<\/a> . 200 people returned from Russian captivity, and later the Coordination Headquarters revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-koordynatsiynomu-shtabi-rozkryly-detali-obminu-polonenymy\/\">the details of the prisoner exchange<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the return of 300 Ukrainian servicemen and 2 civilians from Russian captivity. Most of the released defenders had been in captivity for over a year, some since 2022. He wrote about this in Telegram . According to Zelensky, among those released are servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1366235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1366267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366267","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1366235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}