prisonersofwar
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Another 75 Ukrainian prisoners have been brought back to Ukraine from Russian captivity, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 31. This includes service personnel of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards, and four civilians. The former captives were exchanged for 75 Russian soldiers, RIA Novosti claimed, citing the country's Defense Ministry. "Throughout all of this time, we have not stopped working for a single day to bring everyone home from Russian captivity," Zelensky said on X. "We remember about every per...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Another 75 Ukrainian prisoners have been brought back to Ukraine from Russian captivity, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 31. This includes service personnel of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards, and four civilians. The former captives were exchanged for 75 Russian soldiers, RIA Novosti claimed, citing the country's Defense Ministry. "Throughout all of this time, we have not stopped working for a single day to bring everyone home from Russian captivity," Zelensky said on X. "We remember about every per...
Kyiv Independent
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated. Another 75 Ukrainian prisoners have been brought back to Ukraine from Russian captivity, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 31. This includes service personnel of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards, and four civilians. The former captives were exchanged for 75 Russian soldiers, RIA Novosti claimed, citing the country's Defense Ministry. "Throughout all of this time, we have not stopped working for a single day to bring everyone home from Russian captivity," Zelensky said on X. "We remember about every per...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on May 12, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to "The Counteroffensive," click here. Prisoner negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are one of the many things obscured by the fog of war. Even the wives of prisoners of war (POWs) don't find out their husbands are being freed until they are on Ukrainian soil. One woman attended these prisoner exchanges while her husband was in Russian captivity – if only in an attempt to get closer to w...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on May 12, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to "The Counteroffensive," click here. Prisoner negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are one of the many things obscured by the fog of war. Even the wives of prisoners of war (POWs) don't find out their husbands are being freed until they are on Ukrainian soil. One woman attended these prisoner exchanges while her husband was in Russian captivity – if only in an attempt to get closer to w...
Kyiv Independent
Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on May 12, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to "The Counteroffensive," click here. Prisoner negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are one of the many things obscured by the fog of war. Even the wives of prisoners of war (POWs) don't find out their husbands are being freed until they are on Ukrainian soil. One woman attended these prisoner exchanges while her husband was in Russian captivity – if only in an attempt to get closer to w...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
As Ukraine prepares for a major peace summit in June, President Volodymyr Zelensky sees an opportunity to free all Ukrainian prisoners from Russia before the end of the war. After the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has seized thousands of Ukrainians, from soldiers to children, adding them to the hundreds of Ukrainian warfighters it was holding from earlier. Ukrainian authorities doesn't disclose how many Russian prisoners of war (POWs) are currently in custody in Ukraine, nor how many POW detention centers there are in the country. "Some are skeptical, saying that (the all-for-all pr...
Kyiv Independent
As Ukraine prepares for a major peace summit in June, President Volodymyr Zelensky sees an opportunity to free all Ukrainian prisoners from Russia before the end of the war. After the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has seized thousands of Ukrainians, from soldiers to children, adding them to the hundreds of Ukrainian warfighters it was holding from earlier. Ukrainian authorities doesn't disclose how many Russian prisoners of war (POWs) are currently in custody in Ukraine, nor how many POW detention centers there are in the country. "Some are skeptical, saying that (the all-for-all pr...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
As Ukraine prepares for a major peace summit in June, President Volodymyr Zelensky sees an opportunity to free all Ukrainian prisoners from Russia before the end of the war. After the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has seized thousands of Ukrainians, from soldiers to children, adding them to the hundreds of Ukrainian warfighters it was holding from earlier. Ukrainian authorities doesn't disclose how many Russian prisoners of war (POWs) are currently in custody in Ukraine, nor how many POW detention centers there are in the country. "Some are skeptical, saying that (the all-for-all pr...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Since last December, Russian forces likely executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers who tried to surrender and possibly six who were already surrendering or had surrendered, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on May 2. "These incidents should be investigated as war crimes," the NGO's statement read. Over the past months, footage of several instances capturing Russian soldiers killing and surrendering Ukrainian soldiers has emerged online. "Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, its forces have committed many heinous war crimes," said Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at HR...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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