Putin shifts Russia to year-round conscription after 346,000 losses in 2025
The new legislation requires military enlistment offices to process recruits continuously throughout the year, eliminating seasonal breaks.
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Bucha was only beginning: Russian troops deliberately kill men and use women, children as “human shields” in Ukraine — military
Presence of civilians doubles the complexity for Ukrainian forces, forcing them to balance protection with combat under constant threat.
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.
“You can fight back against artillery”: Colombian volunteer learns war and Ukrainian on battlefield
Denied a medic’s post, Miguel joined the infantry instead. Now, he saves lives and learns Ukraine’s anthem under fire.
Doctor’s desperate act: Breaking medical ethics to show world Russia’s torture of Ukrainian POWs
Unable to stay silent while examining the tortured body of a Ukrainian hero, he made a choice that violated patient privacy but served a higher truth.
Ukrainian defenders who survived battle of Kyiv and over 1,000 days in Russian captivity return home in largest prisoner swap of war
This marks the first step in a deal to trade 1000 lives for 1000 between Ukraine and Russia, achieved in Turkiye.
“You run, they knock you down, and beat you with rebar”: Ukrainian POW’s 3-year hell in Russian captivity
Russia tortured him for 1,000 days. Now he is free, but his life is gone.
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.
Reuters: Ukrainian prisoners enlist in armed forces to defend homeland and change their lives
Bohdan Filonenko, once a car thief, joins thousands of Ukrainian ex-prisoners enlisting in the army under a new amnesty law, viewing it as an opportunity to fight Russian occupiers.
Mirror: Russian POW camps feed Ukrainian soldiers dog food and torture them until they lose consciousness
Horrific acts of torture have been reported from POW camps in Russia, where captured Ukrainian soldiers are fed…
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.
Ukraine legalizes mobilization of prisoners, mirroring Russian practice
Russia was previously the sole country widely conscripting prisoners to Ukraine's front lines, a practice Wagner group began in 2022 without changing Russian laws.
The Times: Ukraine says Russia operates black market of prisoners of war
Russian forces are operating a black market of prisoners of war, Ukrainian authorities have told The Times. According…
71-year-old Ukrainian dies in Russian custody amid spy allegations
Viktor Demchenko from Donetsk Oblast was held in a Rostov-on-Don detention center, after being detained on espionage charges since summer 2023.
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…
Freed medic: Russians raped girls as young as 14 in Ukraine prisons
Separate cells to rape young women, medieval torture instruments, and burning prisoners alive: after one year in captivity, a Ukrainian medic who treated torture victims details the horrors in Russian prisons
45 Ukrainian defenders return home from Russian captivity – Presidential Office
On 6 July, 45 Ukrainian defenders returned home from Russian captivity, said the Head of the Presidential Office…
Ukraine calls to pressure Russia over jailed Crimean journalists
According to Tetiana Pechonchyk, the head of the board of the Ukrainian Human Rights Center Zmina, 15 Crimean…
Russians took prisoners out of Kherson jail and settled their military there – General Staff of Ukraine
General Staff of Ukraine's forces reported that during the so-called "evacuation" of Kherson prison No. 90, the Russian…
Wagner PMC recruits Russian criminals and convicts for war in Ukraine
On August 14, the Ukrainian town of Popasna (Luhansk Oblast) was hit by US-produced and Ukraine-operated M142 HIMARS…