{"id":49155,"date":"2025-05-16T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-large-scale-prisoner-exchange\/16\/05\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:21:03","slug":"ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-large-scale-prisoner-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-large-scale-prisoner-exchange\/16\/05\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia agree to large-scale prisoner exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukraine and Russia agreed on Friday to exchange 1,000 prisoners each, with the prisoners to be swapped &#8220;in the near future,&#8221; Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The agreement came after 90 minutes of talks in Istanbul, only the second time in the more than three years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour that the two have spoken directly. The first talks came shortly after Russia started its full-scale war on February 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Observers had expected little from the negotiations after it was announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly before the Istanbul announcement, Ukraine said it had received the remains of 909 soldiers from Russia, while the Russian media reported that the Russian side received 34 bodies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/ukraine-russia-agree-large-scale-143934305.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine and Russia agreed on Friday to exchange 1,000 prisoners each, with the prisoners to be swapped &ldquo;in the near future,&rdquo; Ukrainian<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-large-scale-prisoner-exchange\/16\/05\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/d5df4927c9c93133b609c93c53d9d94e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}