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On July 28, 2022, a video was posted on a Russian Telegram page showing a Russian soldier torturing and castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The identity of the victim is unclear through the video; however, the video is shot in high-quality footage and features extreme themes of violence throughout.
A new law means commanders can now turn to prisons in search of convicts to recruit as soldiers. ... 26,000 people are currently in prison in Ukraine. Since the law came into effect, 5,000 male ...
British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons said the video is a new item on the list of accusations against Russia related to the invasion of Ukraine. [21] Council of Europe Secretary General Maria Pejcinovic Buric condemned the inhumane treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. [21]
Russia claimed that Ukraine's military used U.S.-supplied rocket launchers to strike the prison in Olenivka, a settlement controlled by the Moscow-backed Donetsk People's Republic.
Ukrainians urged their government to do more to get Russia to release prisoners of war, voicing their anger on Sunday at a ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of an explosion that killed ...
A mass grave containing at least 47 soldiers that were brutally massacred following the Battle of Lützen of the Thirty Years' War, in the 17th century, which was Europe's deadliest religious conflict, was exhumed and reported in 2017 of PLOS One magazine. Archaeological and osteological analyses found that the soldiers ranged in age from 15 ...
Ukraine confirmed the information and said Russia had freed 50 Ukrainian servicemen as part of the same deal. Russia's defence ministry said the 50 returned Russian soldiers would be flown to ...
In early 2010, there were over 147,000 people in prison and more than 38,000 in pre-trial detention facilities in Ukraine, a total three times that of Western European countries, [5] and half as much as in the United States. In 2009, the number of inmates in Ukraine rose for the first time in seven years.