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 ...

"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 ...

"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.

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

“He has a daughter now,” she said. “She’s 5 months old.” The Ukrainian POWs were in poor health, said Petro Yatsenko, spokesperson for Ukraine’s official body overseeing prisoners. They lacked food ...

The news was confirmed by Petro Yatsenko, a representative of Ukraine’s Coordination Staff for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, following an internal investigation into her disappearance.

But despite their stoic faces, the prisoners here know they are the “lucky” ones, said Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of POWs spokesman Petro Yatsenko.

"Unfortunately, information about Victoria's death has been confirmed," said Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine's prison of war coordination headquarters on Thursday.

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, 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, 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 ...