Kremlin sees “no similar plans” after Oleshky—Kyiv plans to set up a center to return civilians Russia holds
Families of detained Ukrainians will get one office to turn to, the ombudsman says. Russia will have no part in building it.
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Russia has kept the Red Cross away from Ukrainian POWs since 2024. Now about 1,500 captives it never confirmed as prisoners face prosecution
A captive soldier’s wife says that whenever families find a relative, Russia moves them to another prison and contact is lost again.
BBC: Ukrainian civilian freed after years in Russian captivity — his story is one of beatings, starvation, and survival
Journalist Dmytro Khyliuk spent three and a half years in captivity without charges before finally returning home in a rare swap.
“We’ll cut it off and rape you”: Ukrainian prisoner threatened with castration during interrogation in Russian captivity
Anatoliy Tutov survived four rounds of beatings and sexual torture, and released with broken ribs, internal bruises, and fractured bones.