Will Russia and Ukraine announce a new prisoner exchange before Aug 14?
100% of users predicted NO — the community got this one right. 2 predictions cast.
Russia and Ukraine did not announce a new prisoner-of-war exchange before August 14, 2026. Instead, on August 13 the two sides carried out a repatriation of fallen soldiers' remains, mediated by the International Committee of the Red Cross: Ukraine received the remains of 261 servicemen and handed over the remains of 24 Russian soldiers, a combined 285 sets of remains. Ukraine's coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war said forensic specialists would now work to identify the dead. The exchange followed a series of earlier 2026 prisoner swaps involving living captives, including a US-brokered exchange of 205 POWs on each side in May and a swap returning 186 Ukrainians in June, but no new live-prisoner exchange was announced in the run-up to the deadline. Repatriations of remains and POW swaps have remained among the few functioning direct-communication channels between Moscow and Kyiv since Russia's 2022 invasion. Because the August 13 exchange involved remains rather than living prisoners, the question resolved no, matching the community's unanimous prediction of no.