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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.
Joseph R. Beyrle (pron. BYE-er-lee) (Russian: Джозеф Вильямович Байерли; romanized: Dzhozef Vilyamovich Bayyerli; August 25, 1923 – December 12, 2004) is the only known American soldier to have served in combat with both the United States Army and the Soviet Red Army in World War II.
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."
The latest swap since Russia's invasion in 2022 was mediated by the United Arab Emirates, a spokesperson for Ukraine's military intelligence agency said. "Another return of our people - something ...
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On July 6, 2009, the U.S. Government and the Government of the Russian Federation exchanged diplomatic notes reflecting their common understandings regarding the establishment of bilateral cooperation in the sphere of determining the fates of Soviet/Russian and U.S. service-members missing in action (MIA) during the Second World War and wars ...
The Kremlin denies that Russia commits war crimes in Ukraine; Kyiv says it has documented nearly 130,000 war crimes committed by Moscow since its full-scale invasion in February 2022. (Reporting ...
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 ...