{"id":125105,"date":"2025-02-05T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/125105\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"ukraine-russia-exchange-prisoners-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/125105\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>February 5, <em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Russia has swapped 150 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian troops, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Currently, all Russian servicemen are in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance and have the opportunity to contact their relatives,&#8221; it said, adding that the United Arab Emirates brokered the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous exchange of Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war also took place in Belarus on December 30. The Russians said 150 prisoners of war were swapped from each side, while Kyiv said that 189 Ukrainian troops returned home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that 150 Ukrainian &#8220;soldiers, sergeants, officers and naval warriors who were captured in Mariupol and the Zaporizhia region&#8221; were released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/110188\/\">Belarus hosts another Russia-Ukraine prisoner of war swap<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/120246\/\">Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners of war in Belarus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, Pozirk. Russia has swapped 150 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian troops, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. &#8220;Currently, all Russian servicemen are in the territory of the Republic of Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance and have the opportunity to contact their relatives,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[14,30],"class_list":["post-125105","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ukraine, Russia exchange prisoners in Belarus | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 5, Pozirk. 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