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The Secret Channel Russia and Ukraine Use to Trade Prisoners of War

KYIV, Ukraine—Europe’s largest wave of prisoner exchanges since the wake of World War II was set in motion when a Ukrainian soldier reached into the pocket of a dead Russian officer and found a phone.
The New York Times

Ukrainian family’s prisoner of war son returns, changed by trauma

A generation of Ukrainian men has been shaped by the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II. Serhiy Hrebinyk, 25 years old and just released from a Russian prison, is one of them. A generation of ...
CNN

Facing a lack of Russian recruits, Moscow is accused of using deception and bribery to sign up foreigners to fight in Ukraine

The prisoners of war come from all corners of the world: Kenya, Nepal, Tajikistan, to name a few. Speaking different languages and coming from diverse cultures, they have one thing in common – they ...
AOL

Russia and Ukraine stage new prisoner exchange after UAE mediation

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine exchanged 146 prisoners of war from each side on Sunday after mediation by the United Arab Emirates, the Russian defence ministry and the Ukrainian president said.
CNN

Russian soldier jailed for life after being found guilty of shooting dead Ukrainian PoW, in unprecedented ruling

A Ukrainian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war in a January 2024 incident and sentenced him to life in prison, in the first ruling of its kind. Dmitriy ...