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Russian state media has claimed that the battalion has "recruited" roughly 70 Ukrainian POWs in February alone. However some sources state that up to 200 Ukrainian POWs have joined the battalion [65] It was reported that members of the battalion have begun training and will begin fighting in "an unspecified area of the front line" when they are ...
The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Battalion (also spelled in a Russian form as Bogdan Khmelnitsky Battalion) is a so-called volunteer battalion of Russia composed of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs). Russian state media has claimed that its members are Ukrainian (POWs) who were "recruited" from Russian penal colonies.
A Russian woman has claimed that one of the Russian POWs shown in the video is her adopted son Ivan Kudryavtsev, a 20-year-old conscripted soldier from the Omsk Oblast. He is identified as a wounded soldier who passes out while being interrogated. On April 29, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that he went missing during military service. [11]
Speaking to Sky News, the Russian ambassador said that the UK has been “inventing threats” against Russia as he hit out at the roles Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are trying to play in ...
Ukraine's government says a video circulated on social media appears to show 6 soldiers detained by Russian forces, who "subsequently shot them dead." Ukraine investigates video of possible POW ...
Russian news channel Mash and Zaporizhzhia-based collaborationist group We Are Together with Russia said that among the returned remains were 62 POWs who died in the crash. [ 78 ] On 9 December, Tatyana Moskalkova said that the remains of the POWs killed in the crash had been returned to Ukraine following an exchange but did not give further ...
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The battalion is allegedly made up of Ukrainian PoWs who have defected to Russia. [15] Coercion of POWs into combat would violate the Article 23 of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, which says that "no prisoner of war may at any time be sent to or detained in areas where he may be exposed to the fire of the combat zone."