{"id":728748,"date":"2026-01-29T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728748\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:33:12","slug":"ukraine-receives-1000-bodies-in-latest-soldier-swap-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/728748\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine receives 1,000 bodies in latest soldier swap with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last swap took place in November last year when Russia returned 1,000 bodies to Ukraine and received 30 in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has not been an exchange of prisoners of war since October 2025, with both sides accusing the other of stalling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the fourth anniversary of the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion in February 2022 inches closer, efforts at brokering a peace deal between the two countries continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, Russian, Ukrainian and US negotiators met in the United Arab Emirates for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3edde1pwx8o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first trilateral talks since the war began<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The negotiations were described by all sides as constructive, but key territorial issues remain unresolved, including Russia&#8217;s demand that Ukraine give up the 25% of the Donetsk region still under its control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the ongoing negotiations, both sides continue to exchange drone attacks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At least five people were killed in Ukraine&#8217;s Kharkiv region on Tuesday after a Russian drone struck a passenger train. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russia has intensified its strikes on key infrastructure targets in recent months, leaving many people in Ukraine to face freezing temperatures without heating or power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last swap took place in November last year when Russia returned 1,000 bodies to Ukraine and received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-728748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115978882496456505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}