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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…
06/07/2023
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…
03/05/2023
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…
30/10/2022
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…
24/08/2022
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…
19/07/2022
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…
29/12/2019
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…
29/12/2019
“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…
14/01/2018
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…
09/05/2017
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…
04/05/2017
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…
17/03/2017
“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…
22/12/2016
Savchenko free, Russians furious and confused
“One Ukrainian woman is worth two Russian men,” many commentators noted as they witnessed an obviously unsymmetrical comeback…
26/05/2016
Four ATO soldiers released from captivity
Earlier today, “DNR” proxies transferred three Ukrainian soldiers – senior sergeant Serhiy Harnaha, junior sergeant Serhiy Dmytruk, and…
20/02/2016
“Mom, I’m alive”: mother receives word from son declared KIA
The incredible story of the mother of an ATO soldier who received official notice of her son’s death,…
17/01/2016
Ukrainian human rights activists published Savchenko List
On February 13, human rights defenders from the Open Dialog Foundation published the “Savchenko List.” They urged the…
15/02/2015