Russia and Ukraine agree to prisoner swap, but little else, in US.-mediated talks

The Washington Post ^ | 11-11-2026 9:45 a.m. | Mary Ilyushina, Rachel Chason

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Following the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine after a nine-month pause, negotiators agreed to a large-scale prisoner exchange — as they have after nearly every round of talks — but little else to bridge the gap on the major issues dividing them, including a plan for postwar security in the region.

There has also been no indication that Moscow has stepped back from its maximalist demands aimed at crushing Ukraine, as the country braces for what is likely to be its toughest winter yet because of relentless Russian strikes.

The two-day talks in Abu Dhabi exposed a deepening split between the U.S. and European visions of how to approach Russia in the talks, with Moscow welcoming the pitch from President Donald Trump’s envoys to open the conversation regarding what a postwar security architecture would look like, a long-standing Kremlin demand. Kyiv and its European allies are alarmed by the prospect of a Kremlin-drafted security order.

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[Carry_Okie]

It never ceases to amaze me the degree of other-people’s suffering “leaders” are willing to tolerate.

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[reasonisfaith]

Funny how the Washington Post is a CIA-run communist newspaper.

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VIDEO

‘PUTIN DOESN’T CARE’: Russia’s SHOCKING death toll exposed
Fox Business
3.4M subscribers
11-10-2026 2:00 p.m.
Length 5:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjp14ML2tcI

Former Army special ops intelligence analyst and Powerus co-founder Brett Velicovich discusses Russia’s evolving attack drones, Ukraine’s air defenses and the latest battlefield challenges on ‘Varney & Co.’ #foxbusiness #varney

• 0:00 Russia’s NEW attack drones pose major threat to Ukraine

• 0:56 Is the U.S. prepared for Russia’s evolving drone warfare?

• 1:51 SHOCKING report claims 400,000 Russian troops killed

• 2:57 Putin’s BRUTAL war: Does he care about the staggering death toll?

• 3:45 Trump says Iran strikes aren’t necessary — can diplomacy work?

[Red Badger]

What if the Russian POWs don’t want to go back?..................

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OFFICIAL MOTTO OF CIA

“The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence.”

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UNOFFICIAL MOTTO OF CIA

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free (John 8:32)
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The acronym CIA is for Central Intelligence Agency
* Others have said CIA stands for ‘Christians in Action’

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“What if the Russian POWs don’t want to go back?”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4402637/posts?page=6

“I want to live” is the state project of Ukraine. Many Russians, especially newly mobilized ones and their relatives call the project’s hotline.

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ARTICLES

1. I Want to Live Project: In 2026, Ukraine captures average of 107 more Russian soldiers per month than Russia captures Ukrainians
Interfax
10-06-2026 12:20
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1215030.html

” “In January 2024, Putin claimed that the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian prisoners was supposedly ‘one to ten.’ In reality, since mid-2023, Ukraine has begun capturing more Russian soldiers than Russia has captured Ukrainians. In 2024 and 2025, Ukraine’s pool of prisoners available for exchange grew faster than Russia’s. In 2026, this gap widened further,” the message reads.

Ukraine achieves this primarily thanks to its soldiers, who risk their lives to capture the enemy alive. Systematic information outreach also plays a role: Russian troops are shown that surrendering offers a chance to save their lives and that, once in captivity, they will live in normal conditions.
[excerpt]

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Russian POWs survive Meat Grinder! Truth about Russia in Ukraine War | Zolkin Interview
Zolkin Volodymyr
Jul 27, 2026
Length 40:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOTC6mBLxqc

In this shocking Zolkin Interview, three Russian POWs reveal how their entire units were wiped out by drone strikes. They survived a brutal Meat Grinder only to realize they were just used as “cannon meat.” Watch as these prisoners expose the harsh Truth about Russia, its penal battalions, and the dark reality of the Ukraine War.

CHAPTERS [Sync to video time]
1. 0:00 Frontline experience
2. 5:36 Critique of the conflict
3. 9:53 Final moments before capture
4. 14:06 Phone call to mother
5. 18:45 Final reflections and outlook

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ARTICLE

“After release from captivity, Russian POWs often ‘sent back to die’ in Ukraine”
by Daria Shulzhenko
https://kyivindependent.com/what-happens-to-russian-pows-after-captivity/

“Lengthy interrogations by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), criminal prosecution, and forced return to the front line are often what await Russian POWs after they return home, despite efforts from the Kremlin to disguise it.

“(Russian) propagandists film videos where the released POWs appear to be having fun on cue. But we understand this is all just a facade,” Petro Yatsenko, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, told the Kyiv Independent.

“They are being sent back to die and invade a foreign land,” he says. “Their return home is nothing like the return of our men and women,” he says.

In early June, the independent Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe reported, citing the human rights group “Idite Lesom,” that Russian POWs returned in the largest 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner exchange in May were sent back to their military units and could potentially be redeployed to the front lines in Ukraine.

“Relatives of the soldiers have repeatedly said that after the exchange, they were not even allowed to see their loved ones; men, including the wounded, were simply sent straight to the front lines,” Novaya Gazeta wrote. EXCERPT

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ARTICLE

Russian soldiers who quit Putin’s war get no hero’s welcome abroad as asylum claims surge
AP
By ERIKA KINETZ
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-deserter-asylum-5c7642cd14431d9af65076df2df4b861

“If the choice was death or a bullet to the leg, Yevgeny would take the bullet. A DECORATED WAR HERO of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Yevgeny told his friend and fellow soldier to please aim carefully and avoid bone. The tourniquets were ready.

The pain that followed was the price Yevgeny paid for a new chance at life. Like thousands of other Russian soldiers, he deserted the army.

“I joke that I gave birth to myself,” he said. “When a woman gives birth to a child, she experiences very intense pain and gives new life. I gave myself life after going through very intense pain.” [EXCERPT]

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“It never ceases to amaze me the degree of other-people’s suffering “leaders” are willing to tolerate.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4402637/posts?page=2#2

Your comment reminded me of the very different prisoner of war conditions Daria Shulzhenko describes in the article “After release from captivity, Russian POWs often ‘sent back to die’ in Ukraine”

DIFFERENT CONDITIONS

“In UKRAINE, Russian POWs are primarily held in five specialized camps set up after the start of the full-scale invasion. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations, as well as journalists, have access to Russian POWs and the facilities where they’re held.

The inspections by ICRC take place every two months and can last several days.

In RUSSIA, there are no specialized camps for Ukrainian POWs outlined by the Third Geneva Convention. Instead, captured soldiers and civilians are held in more than 180 detention sites across the country, according to Yatsenko.”

https://kyivindependent.com/what-happens-to-russian-pows-after-captivity/

[Carry_Okie]

A reading of the Gulag Archipelago teaches that this wasn't just a matter of communism, but an attribute of Russian character. There's just something about their obsessions with harsh reality. Maybe it's the weather. Have you given a careful listen to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?

[delta7]

Vlad might think about a deal when he finishes liberating the ethnic Russian provinces. He now only lacks less than 10 percent of Donetsk, Lugansk, Crimea etc fell a long time ago.

I don’t get the Ukie war cheerleaders, they somehow think Vlad is going to pick up and leave? The ethnic Russian provinces ( the Russian Donbass) is going to stay Russian. Get used to it.

[Petrosius]

The only ethnic Russian majority province is Crimea; Donetsk and Luhansk have ethnic Ukrainian majorities. This has been pointed out many times in the past. Why do you still push the falsehood that they are ethnic Russian provinces?

[reasonisfaith]

There are some Christians serving in the CIA.

But not those who work for the Washington Post.