{"id":5061,"date":"2026-04-11T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/5061\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:19:20","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-exchange-175-prisoners-of-war-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/5061\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine exchange 175 prisoners of war each"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bUkraine and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260409-putin-announces-orthodox-easter-ceasefire-in-ukraine\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia<\/a> exchanged 175 prisoners of war each on Saturday \u200bin their latest swap, officials from both countries said, as they prepare to start a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260411-russia-and-ukraine-set-to-begin-orthodox-easter-ceasefire\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ceasefire to mark Orthodox Easter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20260405-ukraine-zelensky-meets-syria-new-leader-al-sharaa-in-damascus-pushes-military-deals\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> said \u200bUkraine \u200chad brought home 175 servicemen and seven civilians \u2060from Russian captivity. He said the Ukrainian servicemen had defended the country on different fronts \u200cfrom the east to the south and most \u2060of them had been in captivity in Russia since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Defence Ministry said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/united-arab-emirates\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United Arab Emirates<\/a> had mediated \u200bthe exchange. Russia took back 175 servicemen and also seven civilians \u200coriginally from the Kursk region, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20250319-russia-and-ukraine-exchange-hundreds-of-prisoners-of-war\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During more than four years of war, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/kyiv\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyiv<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/moscow\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moscow<\/a> have carried out regular POW \u200cexchanges. They are among the few concrete results to emerge from several rounds of \u200bUS-brokered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/peace-talks\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">peace talks<\/a> between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> and Russia, which remain stalled over the issue of territory.<\/p>\n<p>As both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> and Russia celebrate Orthodox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/easter\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Easter<\/a> \u200bthis weekend, the countries have agreed on a short, 32-hour \u200bceasefire to mark the holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260411-russia-and-ukraine-set-to-begin-orthodox-easter-ceasefire\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia and Ukraine set to begin Orthodox Easter ceasefire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia said the \u200bceasefire would begin at 4pm (13:00 GMT) on Saturday and end at midnight on Sunday. Zelensky \u200bsaid he and his army chief had discussed the procedures for Ukrainian troops under the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The absence of Russian strikes in the air, on land, and at sea will mean no \u2060response from our side,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A ceasefire at Easter could also become \u2060the beginning \u200bof real movement toward peace\u00a0\u2013 our side has made the corresponding proposal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200bUkraine and Russia exchanged 175 prisoners of war each on Saturday \u200bin their latest swap, officials from both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3395,1096,73,5,372,308,587],"class_list":{"0":"post-5061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-ceasefire","9":"tag-easter","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}