{"id":7701,"date":"2024-08-24T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7701"},"modified":"2024-08-24T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T16:11:03","slug":"russia-ukraine-exchange-230-prisoners-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/russia-ukraine-exchange-230-prisoners-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Ukraine exchange 230 prisoners of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>&#8211; Russia and Ukraine announced Saturday they had exchanged 115 prisoners of war each, just over two weeks after Kyiv launched a surprise incursion into Russia&#8217;s Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange came as Kyiv mounts its offensive in Kursk and as Russia eyes more east Ukrainian towns. It also came on Ukrainian Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries thanked the United Arab Emirates, who said it mediated the swap deal.<br \/>\n&#8220;Another 115 of our defenders have returned home today. These are soldiers of the National Guard, the Armed Forces, the Navy, the State Border Guard Service,&#8221; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>He published photographs of men wrapped in Ukrainian flags. Kyiv had said it had taken hundreds of Russian soldiers captive in its Kursk incursion launched on August 6.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow confirmed the exchange and said it had returned 115 soldiers taken captive in Kursk:<br \/>\n&#8220;As a result of a negotiation process, 115 Russian servicemen taken prisoner in the Kursk region have been returned from territories controlled by the Kyiv regime,&#8221; the Russian defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the troops were currently in neighbouring Belarus, where they are receiving &#8220;psychological-medical help&#8221; and will be brought to Russia soon.<\/p>\n<p>It released images of the men near busses in a field. The United Arab Emirates said it had &#8220;successfully mediated a new captives exchange between the Russian Federation and the republic of Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv and Moscow have held rounds of prisoner exchanges throughout the more than two-year war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Russia and Ukraine announced Saturday they had exchanged 115 prisoners of war each, just over two weeks after Kyiv launched a surprise incursion into Russia&#8217;s Kursk region. The exchange came as Kyiv mounts its offensive in Kursk and as Russia eyes more east Ukrainian towns. It also came on Ukrainian Independence Day. Both countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7704,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7701\/revisions\/7704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}