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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
More than 95% of Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured in Russia – UN Mission
Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, highlighted the stark contrast in the treatment of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, where authorities provide unrestricted access to detention facilities and ensure conditions that comply with humanitarian law.
Ombudsman accuses ICRC of sharing false information on detention conditions of Ukrainian POWs
Dmytro Lubinets has criticized the head of the ICRC delegation in Russia for allegedly manipulating facts about visits to Ukrainian prisoners of war, claiming that most detainees never met ICRC representatives.
Ukrainian Intel: Abduction of civilians is evidence that Russia wages genocidal war against Ukraine
Since the war's onset, Ukraine has returned 3,310 citizens from Russian captivity.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kostin: Russian commanders order to kill Ukrainian POWs with inhuman cruelty
Russian commanders have issued orders not to take Ukrainian soldiers prisoner.
Russians likely executed six wounded Ukrainian POWs in Avdiivka
Relatives have identified the bodies of shot Ukrainian soldiers in Avdiivka as wounded soldiers who were taken as POWs
Ombudsman: Recent prisoner swap exposes torture against Ukrainian POWs
During captivity, Russia subjected to torture all of the Ukrainian POWs, who have returned to their homeland in…
Ukrainian activists to call on EU to impose more sanctions on Russia over blocking POWs exchanges
Ukrainian organizations that defend the rights of prisoners of war are preparing an appeal to the European Union…