Report details bleak human rights situation in Ukraine nearly ... - UN News
Dec 31, 2024 · Continued ill-treatment of POWS. The report details continued executions, torture, and ill-treatment of POWs. Since August 2024, there has been a notable increase in credible allegations of executions of Ukrainian POWs, with at least 62 victims in 19 incidents. Independent verification of these killings has confirmed the deaths of 15 Ukrainian ...
UN report: Credible allegations Ukrainian POWs have been ... - UN News
Mar 26, 2024 · The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) issued a new report on Tuesday, revealing a surge in credible allegations of torture and executions of captured Ukrainian prisoners...
Scores of Ukrainian and Russian POWs head back home after swap
Dec 30, 2024 · [1/7] Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) wrapped with national flags return after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, ... Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world ...
"The beating was brutal. Abuse was very bad": Freed Ukrainian POWs ...
Mar 6, 2023 · One atrocity in Vladimir Putin's unprovoked war in Ukraine is largely hidden-- the torture of prisoners. We met three former POWs, survivors, in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital. They were...
Ukrainian and Russian POWs tortured and ill-treated: OHCHR - UN News
Nov 15, 2022 · Russian POWs, held by Ukraine, told interviewers of summary executions and several cases of torture and ill-treatment, mostly when they were captured, first interrogated, or moved to transit...
Russia is executing more and more Ukrainian prisoners of war
The Ukrainian prosecution service says that at least 147 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been executed by Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion, 127 of them this year.
Ukraine and Russia complete first prisoner swap since plane crash - BBC
Jan 31, 2024 · Russia and Ukraine say they have exchanged captured soldiers - the first swap since the crash of a Russian plane that Moscow claimed had 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoWs) on board.
UN decries torture, killing of Ukrainian and Russian POWs
Mar 24, 2023 · UN human rights monitors have documented dozens of summary killings of Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war (POWs) as well as torture, the use of human shields and other abuses since Russia...
Tears as families reunited in Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange - BBC
Dec 30, 2024 · Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates. The Russian defence ministry said it had swapped 150 Ukrainian soldiers held captive ...
Hundreds of soldiers freed in prisoner exchange between Russia, Ukraine …
Dec 30, 2024 · Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 189 Ukrainian prisoners, including military personnel, border guards and national guards — along with two civilians — were freed. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that 150 Russian soldiers were freed from captivity as part of the exchange in which each side released 150 people.