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Russia broke his heart — literally. Ukrainian doctors gave him a new one, just in time for his 45th birthday

The story of Yurii Mykytenchuk, a Ukrainian soldier whose heart was destroyed in Russian captivity, and the Kyiv transplant team that saved him.

byYuri Zoria

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How FPV drones saved two Ukrainian POWs: isolate, strike, evacuate

he operation in Zaporizhzhia Oblast required coordinating multiple units and using drones to establish control of the situation before any direct strike could be authorized.

byYuri Zoria

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157 Ukrainians return from Russian captivity in first POW swap since October 2025 (PHOTOS)

Among those freed are wounded servicemembers from across Ukraine's military branches, with 139 of the released prisoners held in Russian captivity since 2022.

byYuri Zoria

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Russian troops execute five disarmed Ukrainian POWs near Pokrovsk and Huliaipole

Two of the executed soldiers were captured alive during a Russian assault in Shakhove on 27 December, prosecutors say.

byYuri Zoria

Russian prison guard Nikita Pushkarev circled in group photo of correctional colony No. 12 staff in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast

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Ukrainian investigators identify Russian prison guard who beat civilian POW to death

Nikita Pushkarev practiced his combat moves on starving prisoners "like live punching bags."

byMaxim Volovich

Electronic voting boards display country-by-country votes during a UN General Assembly session on Ukraine, with the UN emblem visible in the center of the hall

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UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s war crimes in occupied Ukraine, demands prisoner access

Resolution strengthens torture provisions, invokes "list of shame" for child killings

byMaxim Volovich

Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territory facing filtration and deportation to remote regions of Russia

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From Stalin’s camps to Kherson’s basements: Russia deploys Soviet filtration methods in Ukraine

Memorial Human Rights Center documents kidnappings, torture, extrajudicial killings in first Russian rights mission since 2022 invasion

byMaxim Volovich

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US and Ukraine report progress in Geneva peace consultations

Just before the meeting, Trump lashed out at Kyiv for allegedly showing “zero gratitude” toward the US.

byYuri Zoria

Three Ukrainian judges in Zaporizhzhia court pronounce historic life sentence for POW execution, 6 November 2025

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Life sentence for Russian who executed Ukrainian POW exposes stark asymmetry in prisoner treatment

International monitors document systematic Russian violations of POW rights

byMaxim Volovich

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Russia stages prisoner inspections by concealing tortured Ukrainian POWs, OSCE experts reveal

The independent expert mission concluded that Russian authorities deliberately hide evidence of torture by showing international monitors only prisoners in relatively good physical condition, while over 90% of returning POWs report abuse in captivity.

byVira Kravchuk

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Moscow cuts another lifeline to Europe’s human rights system as Putin moves to exit anti-torture convention

The step shields Russian prisons from international inspectors, raising fears for Ukrainian POWs and abducted civilians.

byMarianna Prysiazhniuk

Staff of penal colony IK-10 in Mordovia, where Ukrainian POWs have been tortured. Illustration: InformNapalm.

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Russian Aggression

33 Russian guards, medics, commanders: InformNapalm links POW abuse in Mordovia to named Russian staff

The OSINT publication exposes those allegedly complicit in systematic violence against Ukrainian captives at IK-10 colony.

byYuri Zoria

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Russian Aggression

144 Russian prison guards exposed for torturing Ukrainian POWs—investigation reveals daily routine of cruelty and family life

The Molfar Intelligence Institute, a Ukrainian NGO, traced how guards commit war crimes and then return to allegedly normal homes.

byYuri Zoria

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“We’ll cut it off and rape you”: Ukrainian prisoner threatened with castration during interrogation in Russian captivity

Anatoliy Tutov survived four rounds of beatings and sexual torture, and released with broken ribs, internal bruises, and fractured bones.

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Ukraine reveals name of main torturer of journalist Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian detention center

Alexander Shtuda, the Russian detention chief, is now charged with overseeing the savage abuse that led to Victoria Roshchyna’s death.

byOlena Mukhina

Radio Free Europe investigators traced the identity of a Russian prison doctor whom Ukrainian POWs universally described as their worst torturer to Ilya Sorokin, a married father who earned recognition as "best paramedic" while denying medical care to dying prisoners.

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Russian War Crimes

Russian “Doctor Evil” posts about loving family and medical pride online, while he degrades and tortures Ukrainian POWs in reality

Investigators identified a Russian doctor who shocked Ukrainian prisoners of war with stun guns, forced them to bark like dogs and crawl on floors, made them recite degrading slurs, and denied them medical care.

byVira Kravchuk

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“He said we deserve genocide”: Journalists unmask Russian “Dr. Evil” torturer of Ukrainian POWs

A stunning investigation by Radio Free Europe identifies Illia Sorokin, a Russian prison medic who brutalized captured Ukrainian soldiers with electric shocks, rubber batons, and degrading humiliation.

byOlena Mukhina

Prisoner exchange on 4 July brings home Ukrainian defenders some of whom spent over three years in Russian captivity.

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Seriously wounded Ukrainian POWs return home from Russian captivity filled with torture

The exchange on 4 July included soldiers captured during Mariupol siege in 2022 who spent over three years in Russian custody.

byVira Kravchuk

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Ukraine conducts fourth POW swap in a week, returns defenders held since 2022

The latest group includes wounded and ill personnel captured during major battles.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian serviceman returned from Russian captivity with "Glory to Russia" inscription on his body.

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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.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian POWs

Russia broke his heart — literally. Ukrainian doctors gave him a new one, just in time for his 45th birthday

How FPV drones saved two Ukrainian POWs: isolate, strike, evacuate

157 Ukrainians return from Russian captivity in first POW swap since October 2025 (PHOTOS)

Russian troops execute five disarmed Ukrainian POWs near Pokrovsk and Huliaipole

Ukrainian investigators identify Russian prison guard who beat civilian POW to death

UN General Assembly condemns Russia’s war crimes in occupied Ukraine, demands prisoner access

From Stalin’s camps to Kherson’s basements: Russia deploys Soviet filtration methods in Ukraine

US and Ukraine report progress in Geneva peace consultations

Life sentence for Russian who executed Ukrainian POW exposes stark asymmetry in prisoner treatment

Russia stages prisoner inspections by concealing tortured Ukrainian POWs, OSCE experts reveal

Moscow cuts another lifeline to Europe’s human rights system as Putin moves to exit anti-torture convention

33 Russian guards, medics, commanders: InformNapalm links POW abuse in Mordovia to named Russian staff

144 Russian prison guards exposed for torturing Ukrainian POWs—investigation reveals daily routine of cruelty and family life

“We’ll cut it off and rape you”: Ukrainian prisoner threatened with castration during interrogation in Russian captivity

Ukraine reveals name of main torturer of journalist Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian detention center

Russian “Doctor Evil” posts about loving family and medical pride online, while he degrades and tortures Ukrainian POWs in reality

“He said we deserve genocide”: Journalists unmask Russian “Dr. Evil” torturer of Ukrainian POWs

Seriously wounded Ukrainian POWs return home from Russian captivity filled with torture

Ukraine conducts fourth POW swap in a week, returns defenders held since 2022

Doctor’s desperate act: Breaking medical ethics to show world Russia’s torture of Ukrainian POWs

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