PrisonersofWar
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)
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
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 (UK)
Adil Muhammad, a Somali, sits in a Russian military uniform among other prisoners of war (POWs) in a press conference in Ukraine’s capital in mid-March. The former infantryman was captured in combat near Marinka in Donetsk Oblast while fighting with the Russian army in Ukraine in early 2024, five months after he came to Moscow on a tourist visa to work and only four days after being deployed to the front lines. Three months into working for $140 a month at a clothing factory, Muhammad saw a billboard with a Russian army advertisement. He described the one-year military contract terms as a “dre...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
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