This is a modal window. undefined OK Close Modal Dialog Prisoners held in Russia - including British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza - have been freed as part of a massive prisoner swap.Why you can trust Sky News Watch Next Chinese rocket blasts off Minster warns of ...
"Today was a really touching moment... but I think it would be good to see if we can potentially do something about them as well," he added. According to the Russian human rights group OVD-Info, more than 1,000 people are currently imprisoned in Russia as a result of ...
The office of Ukraine's president says Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels have exchanged 34 more prisoners.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that since March, Russia had freed a total of 1,031 prisoners. "We remember all those who are held captive in Russia and on occupied territory and will do everything to ensure that each and every one is returned," he said in a video addres...
MEDIA reports on 28 December stated that a prisoner exchange of 74 soldiers held by pro-Russia separatist militants and 306\npro-Russian separatist militants held by security forces had been conducted in Horlivka in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast on an\nearlier unspecified date, Al-Jazeera reported....
On Thursday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that Ukraine and Russia conducted the first prisoner swap since the start of the conflict. Ten Ukrainians held by the Russian military were released in exchange for ten Russian soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces. ...
(which is still alarmingly high) for POWS held by Ukraine. According to Mr Despres, the moment of the highest risk of abuse comes typically “in the first hours after they have been captured.” According to Mr Janowski “on the Russian side the mistreatment continues throughout their ...
Prisoners in China are regularly transported wearing blindfolds. It is unclear whether the men are being held for criminal offenses or for other reasons. The YouTube account which uploaded the video described it as demonstrating the “long-term suppression of human rights and fundamental freedoms by...
Some of the Ukrainians had been held since 2022. Among them were some of those who fought in milestone battles for Ukraine’s Snake Island and the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Article content Russian officials offered no other details of the exchange. Article content Also Wednesday,...
Russia freed US journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-US Marine Paul Whelan on Thursday (1 August) as part of the biggest prisoner exchange of its kind since the end of the Cold War.