{"id":159275,"date":"2025-10-09T12:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/159275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"zelensky-russia-to-use-ukrainian-pows-in-belarus-for-discrediting-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/159275\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky: Russia to use Ukrainian POWs in Belarus for discrediting Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 9, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Russia may Ukrainian prisoners to be exchanged via Belarus for filming videos discrediting Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned at a news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russians ignore Ukraine\u2019s requests and pick prisoners for swaps exclusively on their own, he said, citing intelligence data and talks on prisoner exchanges between Rustem Umerov of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council and Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s aide Vladimir Medinsky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe know that they intend to bring some prisoners to Belarus and force them to record video messages to their parents, saying that Ukrainian authorities are not taking them back,\u201d <em>Ukrinform<\/em> reported, quoting Zelensky as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belarus was involved in about 20 exchanges of prisoners between Ukraine and Russia this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2022, Russia started a full-scale war against Ukraine in which the Belarusian authorities supported the Kremlin, allowing Russian troops to attack Ukraine from Belarus on multiple occasions, supplying arms to Moscow and treating wounded Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/158255\/\">Ukraine, Russia swap prisoners in Belarus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 9, Pozirk. Russia may Ukrainian prisoners to be exchanged via Belarus for filming videos discrediting Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned at a news conference. Russians ignore Ukraine\u2019s requests and pick prisoners for swaps exclusively on their own, he said, citing intelligence data and talks on prisoner exchanges between Rustem Umerov of Ukraine\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":139648,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-159275","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>Zelensky: Russia to use Ukrainian POWs in Belarus for discrediting Kyiv | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 9, Pozirk. 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