"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.

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 ...

Even if relatives don't bring much with them, those returning home can see how much they are loved," as Petro Yatsenko, a speaker for the coordination office, told DW.

The next prisoner exchange between Ukraine and russia may take place in a "blind" format. This was stated by the representative of the Coordination Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war, ...

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

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.

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 ...

"They spent a lot of time in Russian places of detention, without any visits of International Red Cross," Petro Yatsenko, of Ukraine's Coordination HQ for prisoners of war, told the BBC.

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

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.