All Lyubov Brodovska wanted from the Ukrainian soldiers just freed in a prisoner exchange with Russia was for one to give a ...

Even after Ukraine cut diplomatic ties with Russia in 2022, prisoner exchanges have continued as one of the few remaining ...

Ukraine sent dozens of its own citizens to Russia last month, releasing them from prisons in an attempt to secure the release ...

"Our task is to bring back (all POWs) before the war ends," Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, told the Kyiv Independent.

said Petro Yatsenko, spokesperson for Ukraine’s official body overseeing prisoners. They lacked food during their imprisonment and had no access to medical care, he said. More than 200 Ukrainian POWs ...

"This is one of the biggest" operations of its kind, spokesman Petro Yatsenko told AFP. Kyiv said it handed over the remains of 38 Russian soldiers in the deal, which was mediated by International ...

Petro Yatsenko, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, said in October that Roshchyna died while being transferred from a detention facility in ...

Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Prisoners of War Coordination Headquarters, told Ukrainian television that the circumstances surrounding Roshchyna’s death were still unclear.

Petro Yatsenko, a spokesman for the Coordination Council that arranges prisoner swaps from the Ukrainian side, said Russia had never notified Kyiv which soldiers it is holding prisoner.

A 2024 U.N. report found that 95% of released Ukrainian POWs had endured “systematic” torture. Prisoners described beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, sexual violence, prolonged stress positions, ...

Petro Yatsenko from the Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War told CNN Ukraine did not know ahead of the time who was being returned.

Petro Yatsenko, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Coordination Center for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, said in October that Roshchyna died while being transferred from a detention facility in ...