{"id":11692,"date":"2026-04-28T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/28\/belarus-poland-prisoner-exchange-ukraine-war\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:59:41","slug":"belarus-poland-prisoner-exchange-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/28\/belarus-poland-prisoner-exchange-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus and Poland Exchange Five Prisoners Amid East-West Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International media have reported that Belarus and Poland have exchanged five prisoners at their shared border; a move that comes amid ongoing tensions between the West and Russia over the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the exchange took place at the border point between the two countries. Belarus released three Polish nationals, including journalist Andrei Poczobut, and two Moldovan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Poland freed five Belarusian citizens who are said to have been involved in intelligence activities. No further details about their identities or conditions of detention have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus is considered a close ally of Russia, while Poland, as a NATO member, is a strong supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia. Media sources indicate that the United States played a role in facilitating this agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus and Poland exchanged five prisoners at their border amid ongoing tensions over the Ukraine war, with US support reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}