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US officials claim Russian army’s Chinese nationals are mercenaries not linked to Beijing

Reuters sources report that Russia is believed to have around 200 such mercenaries, while official Chinese military officers are visiting areas near the frontlines to gather tactical insights.

byYuri Zoria

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Russian families submit record number of inquiries to find missing in Ukraine as losses mount in Donetsk and Kursk oblasts

Ukraine's Want to Find project received a record 10,027 missing Russian soldier inquiries in March 2025, with heaviest losses reported in Pokrovsk and Bakhmut.

byOlena Mukhina

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80% of Ukrainian POWs bodies’ show signs of torture

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, most Ukrainian POWs bodies returned home have signs of torture.

byLesia Dubenko

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with NBC news, 14 February 2025.

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Zelenskyy: Release of all Ukrainian prisoners may be a step towards ending the war

Ukraine is ready to exchange all prisoners with Russia in what President Zelenskyy called a "fair option" during the Support Ukraine summit marking three years of full-scale war.

byMaria Tril

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Chechnya holds 150 Ukrainian soldiers, reportedly uses POWs as human shields

"Ukraine's prisoner affairs office reports more than 150 of its soldiers are being held captive in Grozny, where Chechen authorities use them as human shields at military facilities. The Red Cross has been denied access to verify prisoners' conditions.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

WSJ: Russian prison system designed special forces to torture program for Ukrainians

Major General Igor Potapenko instructed Russian prison special forces to "be cruel" to Ukrainian prisoners in March 2022, former officials told The Wall Street Journal.

byMaria Tril

I am confident Russia will lose this year. Here’s why

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HUR: Russia plans to recruit 126,000 prisoners and debtors for war in Ukraine in 2025

Russia plans to recruit 126,000 prisoners and debtors in 2025 to replace war losses, targeting 10,000 'special contingent' soldiers monthly amid intensified fighting in Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s contract army strategy faces financial and demographic limits, says Ukrainian military expert

High-paying military contracts target Russia's poorest regions as Kremlin postpones visible urban recruitment.

byOlena Mukhina

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Russia reportedly sentences seven Ukrainian POWs to 16-year terms in trial over Kursk incursion

Russia's use of its judiciary to legitimize prisoner detention and wartime propaganda.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine criticizes UN report on POW treatment as hundreds return from Russian captivity with life-threatening injuries

Ukraine's ombudsman criticizes UN report's equivalence of POW treatment, citing systematic pattern of returned Ukrainian prisoners bearing fatal injuries from Russian captivity while investigations address isolated Ukrainian violations.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia pressures Ukrainian POW families to spy in exchange of information on their relatives

Russian intelligence services are exploiting families' desperation for information about captured relatives to recruit them for espionage.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia holds 16,000 Ukrainian civilians captive, only 168 released since 2022, says Ombudsman Lubinets

International law prevents Ukraine from exchanging civilians for military prisoners, leaving thousands of detained Ukrainian civilians, including journalists and women, trapped in Russian prisons with limited options for release.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia holds 301 Ukrainian civilian women captive, human rights group reports

As Russia continues to withhold information about detained civilians, the human rights defender group have confirmed that at least 301 Ukrainian women are being held captive, with the vast majority seized during the full-scale war.

byOlena Mukhina

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Inside Kremlin’s hidden torture camp for Ukrainians in Belarus

Journalists expose how Russia exploited Belarus state property for a filtration camp, trafficking hundreds of Ukrainians through the Chornobyl zone for factory-scale abuse.

byMaria Tril

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Russia offers largest yet 630-for-630 POW swap to Ukraine

The Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson reportedly announced this, stating that Russia leaves it to Ukraine to decide which Russian military personnel to include in exchanges.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian Ombudsman Lubinets: International organizations remain silent on Russian executions of Ukrainian POWS

Despite mounting evidence, international organizations remain silent, and no legal actions have been taken against the perpetrators.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukraine liberates 400 hectares of forest north of Lyptsi, Kharkiv Oblast

The operation resulted in the destruction of three Russian motorized rifle battalions and the capture of POWs, significantly weakening the invaders' position in the area, HUR says.

byYuri Zoria

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Russians reportedly execute 16 Ukrainian POWs from two units in Donbas

In October, a video surfaced showing the execution of 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian soldiers in the Pokrovske direction, triggering a criminal investigation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU).

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine returns 115 prisoners of war on Independence Day, first exchange after Kursk incursion

This POWs exchange includes 82 defenders of Mariupol, captured in the early months of the full-scale invasion. President Zelenskyy thanked military units for replenishing Ukraine's "exchange fund," enabling the return of 115 defenders.

byVira Kravchuk

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Daily review

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 896: Ukraine’s Sumy region under Russian attack as Kursk incursion goes on

As Ukrainian forces allegedly breached into Russia's Kursk Oblast, the Russians launched multi-faceted attacks on the bordering Sumy Oblast in Ukraine, with Ukraine reporting the destruction of a Russian helicopter and two ballistic missiles.

byEuromaidan Press Staff