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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

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ISW: Ukraine denies Russian claims on alleged blocking of POW and KIA body exchange

Ukrainian authorities insist that no agreement had been finalized for the exchange as of 6 June.

byYuri Zoria

On 6 May, Ukraine returned 205 prisoners of war (POWs) home.

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Ukraine and Russia to exchange prisoners of war this weekend — only result of Istanbul peace talks

The exchange is expected to involve 1,200 prisoners from each side.

byVira Kravchuk

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AP: Ukrainian POW Serhii Hryhoriev died in Russian prison—he is one of over 200

The tragic toll highlights abuse and neglect in Russian detention facilities, according to Ukrainian and international reports.

byYuri Zoria

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Zelenskyy: “303 defenders are home” after final stage of 1000-for-1000 prisoner exchange

Soldiers from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and more are now receiving medical aid and support. Among the freed are National Guard members, border guards, and Mariupol defenders.

byYuri Zoria

Screenshot from drone footage showing execution of Ukrainian POWs by Russian forces, shared by CNN alongside intercepted Russian radio communication. November 2024, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. executions

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CNN: Intercepted Russian radio orders suggest systematic execution of surrendering Ukrainian POWs

CNN reports voice transmissions telling troops to kill surrendering Ukrainians six separate times.

byYuri Zoria

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205 Ukrainian soldiers return home after years in Russian captivity

Among the released are defenders of the besieged and occupied in 2022 city of Mariupol.

byVira Kravchuk

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna who died in Russian captivity and her body was returned to Ukraine with signs of torture and missing vital organs.

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Russian War Crimes

Forbidden stories: Ukrainian journalist went to document torture in Russian detention — her body returned without organs

26-year-old Viktoriia Roshchyna wanted to document the treatment of Ukrainian civilians in Russian-occupied detention centers, but she was captured and tortured herself, becoming a victim of the system she was investigating.

byVira Kravchuk