{"id":541593,"date":"2026-05-12T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541593"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:40:42","slug":"russian-ombudsman-thanks-belarus-for-assistance-in-prisoner-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russian-ombudsman-thanks-belarus-for-assistance-in-prisoner-exchanges","title":{"rendered":"Russian Ombudsman Thanks Belarus for Assistance in Prisoner Exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><b>Tatyana Moskalkova<\/b><\/strong>, Russia\u2019s human rights ombudswoman, thanked Belarus for its \u201cconcrete actions\u201d during prisoner-of-war exchanges between Ukraine and Russia. She made the statement during a meeting with <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b> on May 12, according to the Kremlin press service.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut I would especially like to express words of gratitude to our Belarusian brothers. These events are taking place today on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, but it is not just that a venue has been provided and an atmosphere and conditions created \u2014 there are also sometimes concrete actions that help us,\u201d<\/em> Moskalkova said.<\/p>\n<p>Prisoner exchanges between Ukraine and Russia are usually held at the Novaya Huta checkpoint on the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tatyana Moskalkova, Russia\u2019s human rights ombudswoman, thanked Belarus for its \u201cconcrete actions\u201d during prisoner-of-war exchanges between Ukraine and Russia. She made the statement during a meeting with Vladimir Putin on May 12, according to the Kremlin press service. \u201cBut I would especially like to express words of gratitude to our Belarusian brothers. These events are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a041cee61e1b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russian Ombudsman Thanks Belarus for Assistance in Prisoner Exchanges"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}