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prisoners of war (POWs)
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Stories too horrifying to disclose. Over 80 Ukrainian medics tortured in Russian captivity
In addition to the Defenders of Azovstal, Russian forces captured the entire staff of the 555th Military Hospital…
No, Ukraine’s videos of Russian POWs do not contravene the Geneva Convention
On March 16, Human Rights Watch issued a statement urging Ukrainian authorities to stop posting videos of detained…
Ukrainian women POWs stand proud with shaven heads after prisoner swap with Russia
On 1 April 2022, officials from Ukraine and Russia conducted a prisoner exchange under an agreement reached by…
Ukraine wrote a Geneva-compliant “surrendering guide” for Russian and Belarusian invaders
Even in the extreme conditions of an all-out war, Ukrainian civil society continues to innovate to find better…
Ukraine will release Russian POWs to their mothers if they come get them personally
As Russia continues to hush up the scale of the losses it suffers since its full-scale invasion of…
“Our men are rotting alive!”- say wives of Ukrainian POWs held in “DNR/LNR”
Radio Donbas. Realii and the Centre for Civil Liberties have teamed up to work on the “Unforgotten” series,…
How recent PACE resolution invoking Geneva convention will help free Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia
Since Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships and capture of 24 sailors on 25 November 2018, Ukraine has been…
What we know about Russia’s active duty soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine from 2014
So who are these PoWs and where are they now? Most of the Russian regulars were captured at…
Learn Russian with Euromaidan Press: send holiday greetings to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages
[editorial]Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine is going to enter its sixth year. In result of this war, Russia…
New UNGA resolution: Crimea temporarily occupied by Russia, Russia must release political prisoners & stop repressions
On 22 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A73/L.48 titled “Situation of human rights in…
EU Parliament calls to stop NordStream2, impose sanctions if Russia doesn’t release captured sailors
On 12 December 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling to stop the construction of the NordStream2…
Putin treating captured Ukrainian sailors the way Stalin would have, Eidman says
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir…
Moscow Patriarchate takes lead in prisoner exchange to its benefit in Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, virtually “the last acceptable mediator between Moscow and Kyiv,” played…
Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics”
Russia had effectively blocked the prisoner exchange process in the Donbas for 15 months from September 2016, when two Ukrainian…
Ukraine may swap its 74 hostages in occupied Donbas before New Year
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on…
The humanitarian factor in Russia’s hybrid war
The recent release of convicted Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhmet Chiygoz marks the first release of…
Blood coal: oligarchs, terrorists and POW labor in Russo-Ukrainian war
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) revealed one of numerous schemes by which the so-called republic’s leaders receive money from…
Savchenko free, Russians furious and confused
“One Ukrainian woman is worth two Russian men,” many commentators noted as they witnessed an obviously unsymmetrical comeback…
Ukraine: the country that cares
The difference in the welcomes given the released prisoners in Kyiv and Moscow says more about the Russian-Ukrainian…
“We will live a dignified life in Ukraine as it should be” -Savchenko’s first words at home
After 707 days of imprisonment, the kidnapped and unlawfully convicted on fabricated charges Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was…