ADVERTISEMENT When Ukraine and Russia agreed last week to exchange their prisoners of war in a 1,000-for-1,000 swap, for tens of thousands of Ukrainians, this was a glimpse of hope. In most cases, families and friends of Ukrainian POWs do not know where their loved ones are being kept, where and if they are being moved, what conditions they are being held in or even whether they are alive. All they can do is come to the POW’s exchanges with ph…
Many Ukrainian soldiers have been in captivity in Russia for more than three years, where they are often tortured, ill-treated and where they are tried to return ideologically, proposing that they "join the Russian forces to walk together on Europe".