{"id":1398280,"date":"2026-05-27T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-gur-revealed-who-they-could-return-during-the-new-exchange\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:44:33","slug":"the-gur-revealed-who-they-could-return-during-the-new-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-gur-revealed-who-they-could-return-during-the-new-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"New Prisoner Swap: Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine Reveals Who Could Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ukraine<\/span><\/span> is preparing the next stage of a major \u201c1000 for 1000\u201d prisoner exchange with <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Russia<\/span><\/span>, with new lists expected to include soldiers held in captivity since 2022, as well as women prisoners, the seriously wounded, and seriously ill detainees.<\/strong><br \/>\nThis <a href=\"https:\/\/hromadske.ua\/viyna\/264791-peremovyny-tryvaiut-obminy-hotuiutsia-v-hur-prokomentuvaly-khto-moze-vkhodyty-do-nastupnoho-etapu-obminu-1000-na-1000?_gl=1*1bwt1o7*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTI3MzczMjE0NS4xNzc5ODY4NDY4*_ga_QRXBZKG0YN*czE3Nzk4NzcxODkkbzIkZzAkdDE3Nzk4NzcxODkkajYwJGwwJGgw*_ga_FFQQ6F8PRK*czE3Nzk4NzcxODkkbzIkZzAkdDE3Nzk4NzcxODkkajYwJGwwJGgw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was announced<\/a> during a press conference by Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Hromadske reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, work on the new phase of the exchange is ongoing, and details will be made public after final approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are different categories of prisoners in Russian captivity\u2014these are those who have been there since 2022, as well as female prisoners, seriously ill, seriously wounded prisoners, and representatives of various directions and units,\u201d said Yusov.<\/p>\n<p>He also confirmed that the upcoming exchange could be \u201cmixed,\u201d meaning it could include different categories of Ukrainian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The GUR emphasizes that the process of returning Ukrainians from Russian captivity remains complex and requires constant negotiations. At the same time, the Ukrainian side continues to work to ensure that both military and civilians return home.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Yusov commented on Russia&#8217;s new threats regarding possible massive strikes on Kyiv. According to him, such statements are part of information pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn information campaign is underway,\u201d said a representative of the GUR.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities have been ongoing since the beginning of the full-scale war, so such threats are nothing new for Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassive combined strikes have been used by the enemy since the beginning of the invasion,\u201d Yusov emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, X,\u00a0<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>Ukraine is preparing the next stage of a major \u201c1000 for 1000\u201d prisoner exchange with Russia, with new lists expected to include soldiers held in captivity since 2022, as well as women prisoners, the seriously wounded, and seriously ill detainees. This was announced during a press conference by Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1353734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878,76885],"class_list":["post-1398280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398280","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398458,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398280\/revisions\/1398458"}],"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=1398280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}