{"id":1157,"date":"2025-08-06T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:50:20","slug":"moscows-top-negotiator-confirms-kiev-rejecting-1000-pows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/moscows-top-negotiator-confirms-kiev-rejecting-1000-pows\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow\u2019s top negotiator confirms Kiev rejecting 1,000 POWs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Medinsky has accused Ukraine of derailing prisoner swap efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine is refusing to take back a thousand of its soldiers presently held by Russia, Moscow\u2019s chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, has confirmed.<\/p>\n

RT on Wednesday launched a website<\/a>\u00a0which lists details of 1,000 Ukrainian POWs who claim they have been abandoned by Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

In a Telegram post on Wednesday, the Russian presidential aide accused Kiev of stalling the exchange process.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>A thousand captured Ukrainian troops \u2013 and Kiev is turning its back on them<\/em>,\u201d Medinsky wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s why the second exchange was so difficult, and the third still hasn\u2019t started.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Russia and Ukraine have carried out a series of exchanges since Kiev\u2019s return to direct talks this year. Following the third round of peace negotiations in T\u00fcrkiye last month, Medinsky said Moscow had proposed a new swap involving at least 1,200 POWs from each side.<\/p>\n

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RT speaks with captured Ukrainians Kiev refuses to exchange<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Medinsky also shared a link to the website launched by RT,\u00a0citing Ukrainian POWs claiming that Kiev\u00a0has refused to repatriate them during \u201call-for-all\u201d<\/em> swap efforts with Russia. The POWs submitted a collective petition to Zelensky, demanding that they be included in future exchanges.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>This would be fairer than picking out 50 or 100 \u2018special\u2019 individuals a month. We are thousands here! Do you actually need us in Ukraine?<\/em>\u201d the petition reads.<\/p>\n

Medinsky stressed that Russia has never divided its own POWs into categories.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US special envoy Steve Witkoff,\u00a0who arrived on what US President Donald Trump\u00a0described as a make-or-break diplomatic mission.<\/p>\n

Moscow characterized the three-hour talks at the Kremlin as \u201ca very useful and constructive conversation.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump also praised the outcome as \u201chighly productive,\u201d<\/em> writing on Truth Social that both countries would work to end the conflict \u201cin the days and weeks to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly said it is open to a peace deal but insists that any agreement must reflect the realities on the ground and address the root causes of the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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