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A Ukrainian soldier, illustrative image. Photo via Eastnews.ua

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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.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian POWs

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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…

byOlena Mukhina

At last, Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv Oblast get artillery shells to halt Russians - Euractive

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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.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukraine legalizes mobilization of prisoners, mirroring Russian practice

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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.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

Ukrainian POWs

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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…

byOlena Mukhina

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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.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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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…

byOlena Mukhina

torture Yuriy Armash

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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

byChristine Chraibi

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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…

byOlena Mukhina

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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…

byOlena Mukhina

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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…

byOrysia Hrudka

Russian soldiers are pictured at the Wagner military base in Popasna, Ukraine, with the address clearly visible on a plaque in the top left corner, resulting in a deadly mid-August attack (Source: Sergey Sreda)

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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…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russian military to use prisoners to make up its combat losses in Ukraine

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Like Stalin before him, Putin using prisoners as cannon fodder in Ukraine

In yet another sign that Russian combat losses are far higher than officials are willing to admit, representatives…

byPaul A. Goble

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War in Donbas

Ukraine swaps 127 prisoners including defendants of Maidan massacre to 76 Ukrainians held in occupied Donbas

The swaths of the Donbas – Ukrainian easternmost oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk – have been occupied by…

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Case of Euromaidan massacre may never be solved as Berkut suspects freed for prisoner exchange with Russia

5 ex-Berkut officers released from custody upon orders from Prosecutor General Ukraine still doesn’t know who is behind…

Ігор Козловський

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“They said they would torture my son” – religious scholar released from occupied Donbas

Inna Kuznetsova: Mr. Kozlovskyi, by now you must hate that journalists are always posing unwelcome questions. They ask…

byRadio Liberty

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War in Donbas

Ukraine isn’t formally at war with Russia. For captured prisoners, this is a problem

Ukraine is not at peace. It is not formally at war, either. This curious state of affairs, engineered…

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Moving poem by Yuliya, wife of Oleksandr Korinkov, prisoner in the “DNR”

A raven croaks its dreary song above the man sitting in darkness, A darkness covered in sorrow, even…

byChristine Chraibi

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European Parliament listens to the arguments of Euromaidan Press on Kremlin’s hostages

Why has the Kremlin taken at least 44 Ukrainians as political hostages? Member of the European Parliament Mark…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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“Convicted” Crimean prisoners will be sent to correctional labour centres in Russia

Statement published on the website of the Sevastopol City Court, Crimea: “According to amendments to the Criminal Code…

byUkrainian media sources